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The Line of Thought

. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 20, 2017

The factory at work

The Jane Austen adaptation factory never seems to stop churning out fresh material. By now, the proliferating combinations and...

Deborah Yaffe

May 8, 2016

Eligible: Skyline chili and marshmallow fluff

In the 1940 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, played by the great comic actress Edna May Oliver, turns...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 10, 2016

Talking Jane Austen fanfiction

My next book-related event is scheduled for this Wednesday, April 13, in Princeton, NJ: I’ll be speaking at our lovely independent...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 15, 2015

The Austen Fiasco?

Halfway to the finish line, the Austen Project is looking increasingly like the Austen Fiasco. The Austen Project, as you may recall, is...