Jane Austen’s Bookshelf’ presents women whose writing Austen admired — and how modern author Rebecca Romney found them.

But of course PBS Masterpiece is going to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday ... girlhood “as they navigate the infatuations, family feuds and dashed hopes which shaped their lives ...

Miss Austen’s Jane is played by Patsy Ferran as witty, acerbic and, crucially, devoted to fiction. She is utterly determined to become a published author and her family support her in this pursuit.