In "Miss Austen", it's 1830 and a letter arrives inviting Cassandra Austen to the home of their family friend Eliza Fowle, a place beloved in her youth. Her sister Jane Austen, the author of ...

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Not only are viewers in the UK the first to be able to watch Miss Austen from Sunday, February 2, but they can do so ...

In celebration of her 250th birthday, here’s a list of some of the best film adaptations of novels by Jane Austen.

Meanwhile, scenes at the Austens’ residence of Steventon Vicarage were filmed in the Grade II listed country manor of ...

GIVE me period drama, historical fiction or anything that isn’t set in the modern day and I will be glued to it. I’ve got my ...

Based on Gill Hornby's book of the same name, the four-parter follows Cassandra Austen (played by Keeley Hawes), who famously destroyed the private letters of her sister, famous author Jane Austen ...

Taking on the role of a young Cassandra is rising star Synnøve Karlsen, who reunites with Hawes after the actresses played mother and daughter in Sky’s The Midwich Cuckoos. Norwegian-Scottish actress ...

The new four-part drama, which has been adapted from the novel of the same name by Gill Hornby, explores why Jane Austen's sister Cassandra burned the author's letters – a literary mystery which ...

Delight in this reimagining of the lives of sisters Jane and Cassandra Austen in a new miniseries based on Gill Hornby’s best-selling novel.