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

Miss Austen details how Cassy Austen might have had a second chance of romance with the (fictional) Henry Hobday, but ultimately chose to stay with her ailing sister. Jane Austen did in fact die young ...

Laura Piani’s ode to a beloved author delivers on its promise of gentility, gracious settings and mostly frictionless romance ...

Miss Austen’s rising star Synnøve Karlsen opens up about her role as Jane Austen’s younger sister and what she learned on set ...

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

The series—which opens in 1830 ... the present in 1830 and the past when Jane and Cassandra were young. Masterpiece Keeley Hawes as Cassandra Austen. Both the show, and the book it was based ...

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

Decades after Jane Austen’s death in 1817 ... The four-part PBS Masterpiece series “Miss Austen” offers a theory: Much later in life, Cassie decided they were just too private.

the one between Cassandra and Jane. By the end of the series, you can’t help but wonder if Miss Austen would have been more successful as a two-hour movie, with present-day bookends focusing on ...

Jane Austen is one of the English language’s most beloved writers, and yet the details of her own life remain relatively unknown. As the story goes, and as the new PBS “Masterpiece” series ...

Historians (and some Austenites) have judged her harshly for her action, but Miss Austen, airing now on Sunday nights on PBS, puts forward a specific motivation for Cassandra given that by all ...

Starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, the thoroughly romantic film has become one of the most popular adaptations of Jane Austen’s ... and Prejudice” series, which will feature ...