Deborah YaffeNov 5, 2018Emma, Emma everywhereEmma really does seem to be having a moment. Last week, I wrote about plans for both a new filmed adaptation of the novel and a remake of...
Deborah YaffeJan 28, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: AustentatiousIn 1913, Sybil G. Brinton, the thirty-eight-year-old daughter of a wealthy carpet manufacturer from Worcestershire, England, published...
Deborah YaffeJul 1, 2015Online Austen and our Internet selvesIt’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 YaffeApr 23, 2014Better 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 YaffeAug 14, 2013Sanditon Summer: Welcome to SanditonThe 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 YaffeMay 15, 2013Welcome, SanditonWelcome to Sanditon, the new web series from the creators of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, premiered its first video Monday (with another...
Deborah YaffeMar 24, 2013The gratifications of delayed gratificationThe wild success of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, the web series updating Pride and Prejudice to contemporary California, has gotten me...
Deborah YaffeFeb 4, 2013Anniversaries and explanationsJanuary 28 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and predictably the occasion generated a...
