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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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Popcorn time for Janeites
We Janeites fondly remember the years 1995-1997, when no fewer than six Austen adaptations hit the big screen in the US. The next few...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 18, 2016
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It was (exactly) twenty years ago today. . .
People who were alive in November 1963 like to reminisce about the moment they learned that JFK had been shot. American Janeites who were...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 14, 2016
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Fun! Inspirational! But not Jane Austen!
Those of you who’ve been reading this blog for awhile may stop here. You’ve heard what I’m going to say: They’re misquoting Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 5, 2015
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Calling all Austen nerds
Given the attention lavished on filmed Jane Austen adaptations in the past twenty years, it was probably inevitable that, amid this...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 6, 2015
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Death comes to PBS
Just because I didn't much like Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James' 2011 murder-mystery sequel to Pride and Prejudice -- and, like so...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 23, 2014
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Pet Austen Peeve #83: Movie Quotes Aren't Book Quotes
I suppose I should just stop banging my head against the same old brick wall. But really: if you’re going to go to the trouble of...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 25, 2014
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Austen on the (Indian) small screen
More international Jane Austen: an Indian TV channel is launching a show “based loosely” on Sense and Sensibility. (Not to be confused, I...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 31, 2014
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Darcy in Lilliput
When a twelve-foot-high fiberglass statue of wet-shirt-Darcy was erected in a famed London lake last summer, it seemed the apotheosis of...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 20, 2014
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Christmas Anglophilia
I don’t think I’m really an Anglophile – although it’s true that, if money were no object, I would certainly retire to a charming...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 23, 2013
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Jane Austen movies: not the same as Jane Austen books
Look, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 19, 2013
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Back to Pemberley
I suppose it was inevitable that Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James’ 2011 murder-mystery-cum-Pride-and-Prejudice-sequel, was headed for...
Deborah Yaffe
May 30, 2013
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