We were told the house had an Austen connection—not through Jane so much as through Cassandra, who was engaged to the son of the vicar who lived here. Cassandra was visiting when her fiancé Tom ...

A show featuring never-before-seen family portraits is part of a year-long program celebrating 250 years since Jane Austen's birth. Cassandra's hand drawn copy from of a plate from an instruction ...

Masterpiece on PBS is whisking us back into the romantic Regency era world of Jane Austen, only this time, Jane’s sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) is our leading lady. The new Masterpiece show ...

MISS AUSTEN takes a literary mystery – Cassandra Austen notoriously burning her famous sister Jane’s letters – and reimagines it as a fascinating, witty and heart-breaking story of sisterly ...

Such is the case with “Miss Austen,” the 2020 novel by Gill Hornby. The fictional account focuses on Jane’s sister, Cassandra, and her decision to destroy much of Jane’s correspondence ...

the author builds a story around the fact that Jane Austen’s older sister Cassandra burned the letters Jane wrote to a friend, Eliza Fowle. The letters Cassandra finds allows her to flash back ...

The BBC Arts series also has contributions from authors Candice Carty-Williams, Kate Atkinson, Colm Toibin and Bee ... after ...

But they’re worth it as a conduit to Cassandra’s and Jane’s 20s, a period when both women fielded suitors; the younger Austen grew into her voice as a writer, thanks in part to the ...

Cassandra Austen's 1795 hand-drawn copy of a plate from a 1786 drawing instruction manual Luke Shears / Jane Austen House When Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, her older sister, Cassandra ...

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 ...

“Miss Austen,” adapted from Gill Hornby’s 2020 novel by writer Andrea Gibbs, tells the inextricable stories of Cassandra and Jane. Over four episodes, releasing weekly starting May ...

Such is the case with “Miss Austen,” the 2020 novel by Gill Hornby. The fictional account focuses on Jane’s sister, Cassandra, and her decision to destroy much of Jane’s correspondence ...