included in "The Art Of Cassandra" at Jane Austen's House. Photo: Luke Shears. A quiet figure in Jane Austen’s life is stepping into the spotlight. The novelist’s older sister, Cassandra ...

Cassandra's 1802 watercolor of a man crossing a wintry landscape with his dog Luke Shears / Jane Austen House “The Art of Cassandra” features ten works. Six are recent donations or loans to ...

To date, 160 of an estimated 3,000 letters have been found and preserved. Most were destroyed by Cassandra before her death ...

Miss Austen details how Cassy Austen might have had a second chance of romance with the (fictional) Henry Hobday, but ...

You mentioned that she’s an artist. I almost wanted to bring it up earlier, because I have this beautiful folio book of Jane Austen’s History of England and it’s illustrated by Cassandra.

Keeley Hawes stars in an immaculate period drama which attempts to justify why Cassandra Austen literally torched part of her older sister's legacy. For many literary scholars, Cassandra Austen ...

Historians rely on Jane Austen’s correspondence as ... In one letter from January 1801, Jane wrote to Cassandra, “I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always ...

The PBS platform “Masterpiece” doesn’t usually have a villain at the center of its productions, but Austen fans have justly loathed Cassandra Austen (Keeley Hawes), the elder sister of ...

“The Art of Cassandra” features ten works. Six are recent donations or loans to the museum from descendants of the Austen family that are going on public display for the first time.

For many literary scholars, Cassandra Austen is a villainess of Miss Norris-esque proportions. After all, her deliberate burning of her sibling’s vast personal correspondence — only 160 of her ...