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

The surviving letters do more than illuminate Jane Austen’s daily life; they help scholars explore how her personal ...

Laura Piani’s ode to a beloved author delivers on its promise of gentility, gracious settings and mostly frictionless romance ...

You mentioned that she’s an artist. I almost wanted to bring it up earlier, because I have this beautiful folio book of Jane Austen’s History of England and it’s illustrated by Cassandra.

Miss Austen is available to stream on pbs.org and ... It starts making the thing a bit more tangible. - Cassandra, she wears black a lot because she knows that she'll be going into mourning.

Historians rely on Jane Austen’s correspondence as ... In one letter from January 1801, Jane wrote to Cassandra, “I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always ...

That recently aired “Masterpiece Theatre” series centered on Jane Austen’s sister, Cassandra ... toward literature or music or any other art form. Instead, she says — presumably speaking ...

As Cassandra falls ill ... My daughter is an artist of considerable talent. MR. AUSTEN: She did, and it was quite the likeness. CASSY: Not just of him. I drew all three of them, while I was ...