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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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Hold the hot chocolate
I’m afraid I have some very bad news. The pandemic has taken so much from us, and now it seems to have taken something more. Long ago, in...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 9, 2020
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Taking Pride
The past eighteen months have brought us a couple of made-for-the-small-screen Jane Austen spinoffs: the Lifetime movie Pride and...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 19, 2020
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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,...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 12, 2020
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Yum
Twenty-five years ago today, the BBC’s beloved adaptation of Pride and Prejudice began airing on UK TV. By the time the show made its way...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 24, 2020
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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...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 21, 2020
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New and/or improved
By now, we would all be happy to consign 2020 to the trash bin of history. Let’s reboot! Remake! Recycle and replace! Alas, another four...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 27, 2020
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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...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 29, 2020
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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,...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 6, 2020
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Have another one
Just when you thought it was safe to put some cookies in the oven, toss a few snowballs, and top your hot chocolate with a dollop of...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 16, 2020
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Sanditon farewell?
Jane Austen experienced her share of literary rejection. One publisher declined even to look at the manuscript that eventually became...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 16, 2019
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Fruitcake
As the holidays approach, you may be bracing for the arrival of that winter perennial, the fruitcake -- baked months earlier, soaked in...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 9, 2019
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Man and snowmen
My husband seems befuddled, even a tad shell-shocked. His maiden viewing of a Jane Austen-themed Hallmark Christmas movie – Sense,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 2, 2019
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