Autograph letter to Cassandra Austen, Godmersham, June 20–22, 1808.

Revealing the inner lives of men and women, ripping up the rulebook to comment on society, class and politics, Jane Austen ... of personal letters to her beloved sister Cassandra, sharing her ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 Cassandra.

On the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen ... of rumoured letters to Austen’s friends and family once in existence, only 160 weren’t destroyed by the late author’s sister, Cassandra Austen.

In that novel, Hornby attempted to solve one of the great mysteries that haunts Austen fans to this day: Why did Jane’s beloved sister Cassandra burn all of the author’s letters? Miss Austen ...

the author builds a story around the fact that Jane Austen’s older sister Cassandra burned the letters Jane wrote to a friend, Eliza Fowle. The letters Cassandra finds allows her to flash back ...

Because Austen ... on Jane’s sister, Cassandra — the title applies to either sister — whose historical claim to fame, or infamy, is that she burned the bulk of Jane’s letters after ...