Three plus one
Pity the poor Austen blogger. The minute you write , “ No fewer than three Austenian adaptations may be making their way to our TV...
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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
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 21
New material
In case you feared running short of new Jane Austen-themed television, you can stop worrying: No fewer than three Austenian adaptations...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 23
Creepy Lizzy
The newest Lizzy Bennet is a peculiar creature. True, her Regency-appropriate curls are lovely, and her dark eyes might pass for fine,...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 19
Love among the stacks
Is Jane Austen a romance novelist? Discuss. Or, if you’re not interested in revisiting your test-taking days, you could just travel to...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 19
Inferiority complex
In 2007, Colin Firth told the London Sunday Times that he was completely unsuited to his most famous role , which he had played twelve...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 5
High flying
The reviews are in for the latest Jane Austen-themed costume drama, and they’re raves: “Completely captivated.” “Work of genius.”...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 29
Yankee Doodle Darcy?
In the past two centuries, Jane Austen has been called many things. Her fans have called her brilliant, witty, and insightful. Her...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 13
The Shirt, unveiled
Sometimes launching a museum exhibition is a complicated process, as catalogs are researched, international loan agreements negotiated,...
Deborah Yaffe
May 9
Growth spurt
Back in the 2010s, when I first started reading Jane Austen fanfic, the typical example of the genre was a romance novel, either Regency...
Deborah Yaffe
May 6
Seven paragraphs to read if you want to
I should probably spend less time thinking about stupid clickbait listicles that mention Jane Austen. My mental health would improve. My...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 18
Playing around
For certain kinds of Janeites, nothing beats dressing up in Regency costume and—to paraphrase Mr. Bennet—exposing themselves in some...
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