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‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ Is the French Romantic Confection We Need Now
INTERVIEW: French writer Laura Piani tells IndieWire how she used her directorial debut as a modern take on Austen's smart ...
The Mystery Behind Jane Austen’s Lost Letters
To date, 160 of an estimated 3,000 letters have been found and preserved. Most were destroyed by Cassandra before her death ...
‘Miss Austen’ imagines the motives behind Jane Austen’s sister burning her letters
Author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan spoke about adapting Hornby's novel for television and why readers ...
‘Miss Austen’ Ending Explained: What Is Addison’s Disease? What Was Jane Austen’s Cause Of Death?
Miss Austen details how Cassy Austen might have had a second chance of romance with the (fictional) Henry Hobday, but ...
‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’: Modern love with a Regency twist
Laura Piani’s ode to a beloved author delivers on its promise of gentility, gracious settings and mostly frictionless romance ...
Did Jane Austen's Sister Really Burn the Author's Private Letters?
The surviving letters do more than illuminate Jane Austen’s daily life; they help scholars explore how her personal ...
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‘Miss Austen’ Star Keeley Hawes On Her First Regency Romance And Being Married to Matthew Macfadyen IRL: “I Do Bask in the Reflected Glory of His Mr. Darcy”
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 ...
Imagine being the nitwit publisher who rejected Jane Austen's work! CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV
The list of hapless nitwits who rejected megastars-to-be is a long one, but none blundered more badly than Thomas Cadell, ...