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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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Starring Mrs. Bennet
By now, contemporary updates of Pride and Prejudice are legion. On the page, we’ve had P&Ps set in the worlds of lawyers, rock stars,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 3, 2019
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Atlanta, here we come!
For those of us who are impatient to see the latest Jane Austen-inspired TV movie – i.e., for Janeites whose boundless optimism remains...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 29, 2019
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Speedy delivery
As regular blog readers know, I have found it difficult to say anything positive about the recent spate of Jane Austen-inspired TV...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 15, 2019
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Sanditon's Sidney
Production of the new television adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, is moving along even more...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 21, 2019
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Sanditon inches closer to the small screen
Jane Austen wrote only seventy pages of Sanditon before her final illness left her unable to work. In the intervening two centuries, her...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 7, 2019
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Jane Austen meets The Breakfast Club
It’s not every day that Jane Austen turns up in a teen sex comedy. So imagine my pleased surprise last week as I was watching the final...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 4, 2019
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Mistletoe, yes; pride and prejudice, no
Last summer, when I learned that the Hallmark Channel would celebrate Christmas by broadcasting a movie based on a Jane Austen fanfic...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 26, 2018
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Can't *huff* keep up *puff*
This business of Austen trend-spotting is getting to be exhausting. Barely four months ago, I noted that the two-decade-long craze for...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 12, 2018
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Liberties
Back in middle and high school, I took French. In college, I took Italian. I enjoyed them both – beautiful languages, fascinating...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 8, 2018
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Janeite Christmas at Hallmark
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. So perhaps the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 29, 2018
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Davies does Sanditon
For the Jane Austen world, it qualifies as blockbuster news: Revered screenwriter Andrew Davies, the man behind the iconic 1995 BBC...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 12, 2018
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Trend-spotting
We journalists like to joke that once you have three examples of something – avocado toast! Suburban sex-toy parties! -- you can write a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 2, 2018
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