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Cassandra Austen, sister to the beloved novelist Jane, was a talented amateur artist. She is finally getting her moment in ...
This fiery obliteration has become Cassandra’s defining act – and in the subsequent centuries it has left Austen fans and ...
May 18, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Notoriously known for burning Jane’s letters, did Cassandra Austen truly protect ...
Seven reasons not to miss this new show. Miss Austen takes an historic literary mystery – the notorious burning of Jane Austen’s letters by her sister Cassandra – and reimagines it as a ...
Bridget Jones creator Helen Fielding says that the voice of Jane Austen is ... Shortly after Austen died at the age of 41 in ...
“Everything you need to know about Jane Austen can be found between the pages of her novels,” says Cassandra with a pinched smile. And yet, once she finds the letters, she’s transported back ...
‘Jane and her family had much more of a middle-class life, so a lot of effort has been put into finding locations that are on the right scale.’ Cassandra Austen (Keeley Hawes) in Miss Austen ...
In a discussion hosted by 'New Yorker' writer Alexandra Schwartz at New York’s 92nd Street Y on March 27, authors Jennifer ...
Two thousand twenty-five is the 250th anniversary of the birth of the English novelist Jane Austen. England plans to ...