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Journalist and author
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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Surveying the landscape
Nearly ten years ago, Jeanne Kiefer, an Austen fan with a background in journalism and corporate surveys, conducted what is, as far as I...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 6, 2017
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Online Austen and our Internet selves
It’s been more than two years since we fans bid a sad farewell to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, the delightful web series that recast Pride...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 2, 2015
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Better late than never. . .
Squee! Only nine months late (but who’s counting?) my nine-disc, gazillion-hour edition of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries finally arrived this...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 24, 2014
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Jane Austen's 2013
For someone who’s been dead since 1817, Jane Austen had a pretty good year in 2013. She was honored with a set of UK stamps, and her...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 30, 2013
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Approving of Emma Approved
"Emma Approved," the new web series from the creators of "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries," launched this past Monday, airing the first of what...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 10, 2013
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Sanditon Summer: Welcome to Sanditon
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries was always going to be a hard act to follow. Cleverly written and well-acted, LBD retold the story of Pride...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 15, 2013
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Welcome, Sanditon
Welcome to Sanditon, the new web series from the creators of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, premiered its first video Monday (with another...
Deborah Yaffe
May 16, 2013
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The gratifications of delayed gratification
The wild success of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, the web series updating Pride and Prejudice to contemporary California, has gotten me...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 25, 2013
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Anniversaries and explanations
January 28 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and predictably the occasion generated a...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 4, 2013
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