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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 6, 2017

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

Jul 1, 2015

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

Apr 23, 2014

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

Dec 30, 2013

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

Oct 9, 2013

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

Aug 14, 2013

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

May 15, 2013

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

Mar 24, 2013

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

Feb 4, 2013

Anniversaries and explanations

January 28 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and predictably the occasion generated a...