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 ...

Keeley Hawes shines as Cassandra Austen in 'Miss Austen,' a PBS Masterpiece limited series adaptation of Gill Hornby's novel ...

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 ...

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 ...

Decades after Jane Austen’s death in 1817 ... Why were thousands of letters destroyed instead of saved for posterity and giving us a richer insight into the writer of Regency-era novels such ...

“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 ...

Austen is one of the greatest ... My tears flow as I write at the melancholy idea." These letters, the earliest of Jane's that we have, suggest a vivacious, flirtatious, funny young woman who ...