This year marks Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. In England, there will be festivals, exhibitions and parties — pack your ...

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 Catholic writers.

French writer Laura Piani tells IndieWire how she used her directorial debut as a modern way into ... Cassandra. I didn’t know that. To imagine these two women who didn’t get married by ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...