Masterpiece’s latest period drama introduces audiences to a lesser-known Austen: Jane's sister Cassandra. History has not been kind to her, given that her most noteworthy act was burning much of the ...

Keeley Hawes, who stars as Cassandra Austen in the BBC drama ... the writer explained: “Jane wants to write. She’s compelled, she’s obsessed, she needs to tell her stories.

Keeley Hawes signed up to play Jane Austen ... to write a biography about the famous author. Cassandra travels from her home in Hampshire to Berkshire in order to try and retrieve the letters.

My tears flow as I write at the melancholy idea." Keeley Hawes plays Jane Austen's sister in new BBC drama Miss Austen (Credit: BBC) These letters, the earliest of Jane's that we have, suggest a ...

“They were all bright and all rather extraordinary, although Jane was the most extraordinary of all,” Hornby said. “She would write ... the letters are central to the drama, “Miss Austen ...

A Parisian bookseller goes to a literary residency in England and becomes entangled in a love story in Laura Piani’s rom-com.

Also featured are several of Austen’s letters ... Jane Austin” [sic], taken from Murray’s account book, show that Austen, unlike female authors from previous centuries, did not write ...

She died very young at age 41, and I felt, oh, if only she had had a chance to write more ... is what happened with Jane Austen. Samuel Johnson was a giant of English letters in the 18th century ...