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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

Nov 25, 2019

Sneak previews

The new year is shaping up as a happy one for Janeites, at least American ones, since it will usher in two new Austen adaptations – the...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 13, 2019

Second bananas

We Janeites may love Austen’s heroes and heroines, but it’s her secondary characters who make us laugh out loud. Fanny Dashwood’s...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 27, 2019

Promising news about Emma

The upcoming big-screen adaptation of Emma has acquired a complete cast list, and for those of us who delight in fine British character...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 17, 2019

Eternally Mr. Darcy

Pity poor Colin Firth. His IMDB page lists more than seventy-five film and TV credits in a career stretching back thirty-five years, and...