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

Author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan spoke about adapting Hornby's novel for television and why readers ...

Keeley Hawes stars in immaculate period drama which attempts to justify why Cassandra Austen literally torched part of her ...

Anointed “the queen of British telly” overseas, the actress leads a series about Austen’s prim older sister, who torched most ...

Masterpiece's new historical drama Miss Austen is an uneven exploration of the life of the less famous sister of Jane Austen.

A new PBS 'Masterpiece' series uses Austen's sister Cassandra as a window into the lives of unmarried Regency women ...

Let’s be honest—whenever there’s a period drama based on Jane Austen or her life, we’re in. But Miss Austen on PBS isn’t your typical bonnet-and-ballroom story.

Sure, you’re familiar with Cassandra Austen, but what about Mary, Isabella, or Eliza? Here’s how everyone’s connected in the ...

Yet for Janine Barchas, internationally admired Jane Austen scholar and UT English professor, such a task was irresistible.

However the part of Miss Austen that fans might be most in love with are the flashbacks to when Jane, Cassy (Synnøve ... We first meet her later in life, as a spinster sparked into action when ...

Based on the popular novel by Gill Hornsby, “Miss Austen” focuses on Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) who, ...

Historians and Jane Austen fans alike know that Cassandra, Jane’s older sister, burned her sister’s letters after her death. Miss Austen, based on Gill Hornby’s bestselling novel, reimagines that ...