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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

Dec 15, 2022

High-camp Jane Austen

After a year that brought not one but two same-sex updates of Pride and Prejudice, we probably don’t need further proof that the queering...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 26, 2022

Ensembles

Over the summer, when Janeites weren’t arguing about the controversial new Netflix adaptation of Persuasion, many were praising the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 2, 2022

In the air

The zeitgeist is a peculiar thing. For decades – centuries, even – almost nobody makes a Pride and Prejudice update centered on same-sex...

Deborah Yaffe

May 9, 2022

Back to the beach

May already! Practically swimsuit season – and thus a perfect time to check out the latest news about the two beachiest Jane Austen...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 28, 2022

Beach trip

If you prefer your Jane Austen adaptations to be set in the Regency, it’s shaping up to be a good year: Sanditon’s second season has...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 15, 2021

On fire

Nearly two years ago, word trickled out that a same-sex update of Pride and Prejudice, set on the gay mecca of New York’s Fire Island,...