Masterpiece’s latest period drama introduces audiences to a lesser-known Austen: Jane's sister Cassandra. History has not been kind to her, given that her most noteworthy act was burning much of the ...

Agathe is celibate by choice. The 30-something hero of filmmaker Laura Piani’s feature debut “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” ...

INTERVIEW: French writer Laura Piani tells IndieWire how she used her directorial debut as a modern take on Austen's smart ...

A show featuring never-before-seen family portraits is part of a year-long program celebrating 250 years since Jane Austen's birth. Cassandra's hand drawn copy from of a plate from an instruction ...

Novelist Jane Austen has been given a makeover for the cover of a book about her life after publishers decided an original image of her was unattractive. "She was not much of a looker," said Helen ...

Set more than a decade after Jane’s untimely death ... up as it evolves into a perceptive and affectionate portrait of the kind of life Austen lived but barely wrote about.

To get a feel for the original, see portraits of the writer at The Jane Austen Centre in Bath—or just take a peek at Keira Knightley’s hair in the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice.

As Miss Austen dramatizes, the mystery of the missing ... The only authenticated portrait of Jane was drawn by Cassandra; it remains the image used on Britain’s ten-pound bank note and the ...