The surviving letters do more than illuminate Jane Austen’s daily life; they help scholars explore how her personal ...

To date, 160 of an estimated 3,000 letters have been found and preserved. Most were destroyed by Cassandra before her death ...

Author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan spoke about adapting Hornby's novel for television and why readers ...

Decades after Jane Austen ... sister Cassandra burned nearly all of the author’s correspondence, much to the consternation of future fans and historians. Why were thousands of letters destroyed ...

attempts to recast Cassandra more positively, along with her motive for destroying Jane’s letters, which includes keeping them away from family members like the sly Mary Austen (played by ...

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. Neither married, and they spent much of ...

Miss Austen details how Cassy Austen might have had a second chance of romance with the (fictional) Henry Hobday, but ...