Would we even know the name Jane Austen if she hadn’t taken such good ... some widowed, others never married. Isabella’s unceremonious ejection from the home where she grew up.

Masterpiece mainstay Keeley Hawes stars in the four-part series as Cassandra Austen, the older sister and best friend of legendary author Jane Austen (Patsy Ferran). Even though Jane passed years ...

Sadly, this wasn't the case and the famed author never married, nonetheless, as depicted in Miss Austen, she did have a brief engagement. Scenes in the TV series portrayed an inebriated Jane ...

Can reading Jane Austen give us unrealistic expectations of life? If Austen’s denouements (spoiler: everyone gets married) have left you with a longing for either (1) your own happy ending (2 ...

and Hawes (married to “Succession’s” Matthew Macfadyen, who himself starred in an adaptation of Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”) isn’t given much to work with. Cassie and Jane were ...

Miss Austen is the four-part drama focusing on the Persuasion and Pride & Prejudice author (played by Patsy Ferran) from the perspective of her sister Cassandra Austen (Keeley Hawes), who revisits ...