Emma has been called a detective novel, and with good reason: the fun of first reading it consists largely in scrutinizing ...

In 'A Theology of Fiction,' Cassandra Nelson explores how Sr. Mariella Gable stimulated a 20th century surge by American ...

Mary Austen was a real person who married into the Austen family. Young Cassandra was engaged to Tom Fowle (Calam Lynch), who did tragically die before their wedding. There was really a Dr ...

I almost wanted to bring it up earlier, because I have this beautiful folio book of Jane Austen’s History of England and it’s illustrated by Cassandra. Did it ever come up in conversation that ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. The series—which opens in 1830, 13 years after Jane’s death ...

Why did Cassandra burn ... news and gossip.” As Miss Austen dramatizes, the mystery of the missing letters is as much about family as it is about literature. Jane and Cassandra shared a rare closeness ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Masterpiece’s latest period drama introduces audiences to a lesser-known Austen: Jane's sister ...

How did that help to inspire you to write Miss Austen ... And that’s something Jane and Cassandra had to do, they had to improvise. When they weren’t married by the age of 25, they had ...

Set many years after the death of Jane, Miss Austen shows Hawes as Cassandra, a woman who never married out of a commitment ... like Jane and Cassy did in their youth, is unmarried and facing ...

Why is Cassandra ... His remarks did make me ponder. Perhaps there is a biography to be written. About Jane? (inhales) Not just Jane, but my late husband, James Austen, too. He was a gifted ...