Why did Cassandra burn so many of Jane’s letters, and what might have been lost? The destruction ... s most celebrated authors. Portrait of Jane Austen, year and artist unknown.

Agathe is celibate by choice. The 30-something hero of filmmaker Laura Piani’s feature debut “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” ...

Camille Rutherford plays a French bookseller who gets the opportunity of a lifetime to attend a writing residency named after ...

Masterpiece’s latest period drama introduces audiences to a lesser-known Austen ... did Cassandra burn so many of Jane’s letters, and what might have been lost? The destruction has left ...

In Laura Piani's knowing comedy, a headbound bookshop clerk finds herself not ruined by the author but charmed by the ...

When Jane Austen died on July 18 ... I had not a thought concealed from her, and it is as if I had lost a part of myself,” Cassandra wrote in a letter later that month. Years later, Cassandra ...

Novelist Jane Austen has been given a makeover for the cover of a book about her life after publishers decided an original image of her was unattractive. "She was not much of a looker," said Helen ...