Masterpiece’s latest period drama introduces audiences to a lesser-known Austen: Jane's sister Cassandra. History has not ...

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

Laura Piani’s ode to a beloved author delivers on its promise of gentility, gracious settings and mostly frictionless romance ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 18th-century gift that keeps on giving—to biographers, academics, filmmakers, TV producers and, oh yes, readers—Jane Austen has an audience that snaps to attention at the suggestion that ...

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 ...

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 ...