Miss Austen comes to a close in a two-part finale airing back-to-back this Sunday, May 18, on PBS. The Masterpiece adaptation of the novel of the same name tells the story of what led Cassandra Austen ...

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Everyone knows about Jane Austen, the acclaimed novelist behind works like Pride And Prejudice and Emma. But what about her sister? The life and times of Cassandra Austen is the Miss Austen trailer, ...

Opening Shot: Cassandra Austen (Keeley Hawes) is in bed, reading Persuasion, one of her late sister Jane Austen’s best-known novels, before she gets up and faces a new day. The Gist: Cassandra lives ...

Needing tissues and a Masterpiece miniseries is pretty standard at this point. Now they've unveiled a new trailer for Miss Austen. The four-part miniseries is based on the novel by Gill Hornby and ...

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 “Miss ...

Based on the popular novel by Gill Hornsby, “Miss Austen” focuses on Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) who, through flashbacks, unravels their family story and their close sisterhood. This ...

To destroy someone’s letters, back in pre-email days, was a mild act of rebellion; to destroy Jane Austen’s letters was to alter literary history. Though the great novelist would surely have written ...

As Radio 4 marks 250 years since Jane Austen’s birth, Philippa Perry explains why the author remains so influential today ...

Writing great sister acts (think the Bennett siblings of Pride and Prejudice, the Dashwoods of Sense and Sensibility) came naturally to Jane Austen. Or so we gather from Miss Austen, a poignant ...