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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
Mar 15, 2021
Sanditon fans build a second season
It’s been more than a year since the producers of Sanditon announced that the show, a TV mini-series based on the novel Jane Austen left...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 28, 2021
Coming attractions?
Surely the universe owes us a better year than the last. And for Janeites who enjoy screen adaptations of their favorite author, the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 31, 2020
Goodbye at last, 2020
A year ago, I confidently predicted a 2020 filled with the usual array of Austen events: “Teas, balls, fairs, festivals, conferences,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 11, 2020
Even sandier
Sanditon, the much-hyped TV adaptation of the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, is probably not getting a second season,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 20, 2020
I scream, you scream. . .
We Janeites love our Jane Austen movies. Can’t get enough of ‘em! Want more! And more! Or so you’d conclude from recent news: * Plans for...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 28, 2020
Sanditon reprieve?
The past six months have been no walk on the beach for passionate fans of the TV adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 5, 2020
Sisterhood is powerful
I was not enthusiastic about Sanditon, the ITV/PBS series based on the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death. Although the show,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 16, 2019
Sanditon farewell?
Jane Austen experienced her share of literary rejection. One publisher declined even to look at the manuscript that eventually became...
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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...
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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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 18, 2019
By the seaside
A few weeks ago, as ITV began airing a much-hyped miniseries based on Sanditon, the seaside novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 4, 2019
Hunting for Easter eggs
Two episodes of the much-hyped TV adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, have aired in Britain over...
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