'The truth is she did the right thing': The mystery of why Jane Austen's letters were destroyed – by her own sister
Austen is one of the greatest writers in the English language – but relatively little is known about her. And that's in part ...
What drove Jane Austen's sister to become one of literature’s most notorious vandals
A new BBC drama explores one of the most vexing acts of sabotage in literary history: the decision by Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra to burn nearly all the writer’s letters after her death. Keeley ...
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What drove Jane Austen's sister to become one of literature’s most notorious vandals
Miss Austen, which also stars Patsy Ferran as Jane, alongside Rose Leslie and Jessica ... played by Synnøve Karlsen (so uncanny is Karlsen’s likeness to Hawes that the pair previously appeared ...
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'The truth is she did the right thing': The mystery of why Jane Austen's letters were destroyed – by her own sister
A pencil and watercolour likeness by Cassandra is the only authenticated ... This year is the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth. As well as Miss Austen, the BBC has commissioned The Other ...