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

A new exhibition at the Jane Austen House in England includes six artworks that are going on public display for the first time ...

Learn what Miss Austen author Gill Hornby thinks of the TV adaptation airing on MASTERPIECE starring Keeley Hawes.

Set many years after the death of Jane, Miss Austen shows Hawes as Cassandra, a woman who never married out of a commitment ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

When Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, her older sister, Cassandra, was overcome with grief. “She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow. I had not a ...