Miss Austen has been enthralling viewers since its debut at the start of February. The BBC series, based on Gill Hornby's ...

Despite her skills at writing about love and romance enduring for centuries, Jane remained unmarried until her untimely day ...

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Miss Austen, the new drama airing on BBC1, follows the life of Jane Austen's sister, Cassandra Austen. An often-maligned figure in history, Cassandra is famous for having destroyed almost all of Jane ...

Retrace the novelist's childhood haunts, visit the grand country piles that inspired her six novels or recreate the best ...

On the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, the ‘mania’ surrounding her genius shows no signs of abating. From ...

. Fanny Price-Mansfield Park: The author is best remembered for her bold, witty heroines like Lizzie Bennet, a rarity at the time, but one of Austen’s best qualities is in character range. Often ...

The novel melds together fact and fiction as it tries to answer the age-old mystery of why Cassandra Austen’s (played by Keeley Hawes) destroyed nearly all of her younger sister Jane Austen’s ...