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Jane Austen fans around the world have been celebrating the 250th Anniversary of her birth with a wide variety of festivals, ...
“Cassandra encouraged, supported and stood by Jane when she was at her lowest ebb—the rock in Jane’s stormy sea,” Andrea Gibb, Miss Austen’s writer and executive producer, told the BBC ...
Cassandra’s hand drawn copy from of a plate from Bartolozzi’s print Conjugal Love (1786), made in 1806, included in “The Art Of Cassandra” at Jane Austen’s House. Photo: Luke Shears.
To celebrate the author's 250th birthday, a new exhibition spotlights her complicated relationship with the English city ...
“Cassandra encouraged, supported and stood by Jane when she was at her lowest ebb—the rock in Jane’s stormy sea,” Andrea Gibb, Miss Austen’s writer and executive producer, told the BBC ...
In Gill Hornby’s 2020 novel Miss Austen, 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 ...
Adapted from Gill Hornby's novel of the same name, Miss Austen is now making a surprise comeback. The forthcoming Miss Austen Returns is an adaptation of Honby's recently published follow-up book, The ...
Jane Austen scholars have long villainized Cassandra Austen because she infamously burned Jane’s letters, robbing future historians from getting to know the “real” Jane.
The author of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Sense and Sensibility,’ among other classics, comes alive at a new show.
Opening Shot: Cassandra Austen (Keeley Hawes) is in bed, reading Persuasion, one of her late sister Jane Austen’s best-known novels, before she gets up and faces a new day.
Keeley Hawes shines as Cassandra Austen in 'Miss Austen,' a PBS Masterpiece limited series adaptation of Gill Hornby's novel centered on the mystery of Jane Austen's lost letters.
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, was ...