Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) sets out to protect her sister’s (and her own) past, lest her private correspondence and intimate history become part of the official Jane Austen biography. But uncovering a last trove of Jane’s missives sends Cassandra on a trip down memory lane to their girlhood “as they navigate the infatuations,

The BBC has announced that Miss Austen will launch on Sunday 2 February 2025, with all episodes on BBC iPlayer from 6am, and the series beginning its weekly BBC One transmission that evening. Adapted from Gill Hornby’s best-selling novel of the same name,