Miss Austen Regrets | DeborahYaffe.com

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

Jan 11

Miss Austen, sans regrets

Never let it be said that I allowed my excitement--nay, my sheer giddy fervor!--over the Hallmark Channel’s upcoming Jane Austen month to...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 12, 2023

Alumni reunions

Over the holidays, my family settled in for a screening of that sublime romcom Notting Hill. When the movie ended (“I’m just a girl,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 30, 2022

Feeding the beast

The appetite for Jane Austen-adjacent content never seems to flag, at least in the Anglophiliac precincts of PBS. If you ate up Season...