This fiery obliteration has become Cassandra’s defining act – and in the subsequent centuries it has left Austen fans and biographers weeping in frustration. How could Jane’s closest ...

Most readers of Austen’s fiction feel instinctively that her heroines could not properly be united with anyone other than the ...

The first Miss Austen trailer introduces us to another Miss Austen: Cassandra, Jane’s sister. Based on Gill Hornby’s novel of the same name, the four-part series imagines the circumstances ...

"We are not most sisters." To protect her beloved sister Jane's memory, Cassandra Austen makes a decision that will have consequences for centuries to come. Don't miss this fascinating, witty ...

Thanks for all the love for the show!" The four-part drama, based on Gill Hornby's novel of the same name, follows the story of Cassandra Austen, Jane Austen's devoted sister, played by Keeley.

The four-part miniseries is based on the novel by Gill Hornby and follows Cassandra Austen (Keeley Hawes), sister to famous Regency-era author Jane Austen. Cassandra's claim to fame instead is the ...

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Fielding said: “Jane Austen’s voice is so strong and ... Shortly after Austen died at the age of 41 in 1817, her sister Cassandra Austen burnt some of her letters – meaning there are gaps ...

With interest set to soar over the coming months, the BBC has kicked off the year with a new series -- "Miss Austen" -- devoted to the life of Jane's sister Cassandra, who burnt all her letters ...

The cleverness of the original book, and the adaptation, is that it presents Cassandra’s story with all the wit, verve and wry observation we have come to associate with Jane Austen herself.

At the heart of the BBC’s new series Miss Austen is a fictional Cassandra Austen (played by Keeley Hawes). Reviews have stressed that the real life Cassandra’s destruction of her sister Jane Austen’s ...