Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) sets out to protect her sister’s (and her own) past, lest her private correspondence and intimate history become part of the official Jane Austen biography. But ...

Miss Austen provides a captivating glimpse into the life of the renowned author. As a devoted fan of Jane Austen since my teenage years, I believed I had a comprehensive understanding of the ...

Jane Austen's life is posthumously explored in the new series Miss Austen, which follows her sister Cassandra in the years following Jane's death. Although Jane was - and remains - one of history ...

Jane Austen (Patsy Ferran) is dead. Decades later, her spinster sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) discovers that Jane’s letters – in all their acerbic, revelatory glory – are about to fall ...

Promise. “Jane Austen is a lifestyle!” a young woman wearing a Pemberley slogan sweater tells me over Zoom, her passion palpable through the screen. “Not only can you read the novels ...

As an avid Jane Austen fan from the age of 16, I thought I knew all there was to know about the famed writer, but after watching BBC and PBS Masterpiece’s Miss Austen, there’s so much more to ...

Towards the end of her life, in an act of near incomprehensible sabotage, the elder Austen sister burnt swathes of correspondence written by Jane, who had died almost 30 years earlier in 1817.

In her biography of Jane Austen, Claire Tomalin notes a mention in one of Jane's letters of ‘talking with my fingers’, which suggests she learnt deaf and dumb sign language, presumably to communicate ...

It also shows Young Cassy (Synnøve Karlsen) and Jane Austen (Patsy Ferran) in a flashback as they navigate “the romantic infatuations, female friendships and ...

“Jane Austen is a lifestyle!” a young woman wearing a Pemberley slogan sweater tells me over Zoom, her passion palpable through the screen. “Not only can you read the novels, but I met my ...