One of the highlights of my year so far was talking to the brilliant Jane Austen biographer Paula Byrne at the Althorp ...

Rise of a Genius' might not be wholly revelatory, but it’s a necessary addition to Austen’s 250th anniversary celebrations ...

Jane Austen: Rise of Genius is streaming on the BBC iPlayer now and offers an immersive look at the best-selling writer's ...

Opening Shot: Cassandra Austen (Keeley Hawes) is in bed, reading Persuasion, one of her late sister Jane Austen’s best ... world where at least two of her siblings and her fiancé have long ...

In Gill Hornby’s 2020 novel Miss Austen, the author builds a story around the fact that Jane Austen’s older sister Cassandra burned ... where at least two of her siblings and her fiancé ...

Jane Austen fans hardly needed more encouragement, but for the author’s 250th anniversary, the perennial Regency love-in has gone into overdrive. In other words, we are not short on Austen ...

And in that relationship with siblings ... I think Cassandra has been misunderstood; some Austen fans have seen what she did as a sort of vandalism of Jane’s art. But I just don’t believe ...

Inspired by a real-life literary mystery, Gill Hornby’s Miss Austen is a reimagining of the complicated relationship between Jane and her sister Cassandra ... the Mitford siblings were a ...

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