Learn what Miss Austen author Gill Hornby thinks of the TV adaptation airing on MASTERPIECE starring Keeley Hawes.

Rose Leslie and Keeley Hawes lead an all-star cast in Masterpiece's miniseries mystery about Jane Austen and her sister, ...

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

The Gist: Cassandra lives alone on a big country estate; her maid hands her a letter from Isabella Fowle (Rose Leslie), ...

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

A poignant four-part 'Masterpiece' drama focuses on Jane Austen's devoted sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes), who years after the author's untimely death discovers a cache of personal letters which bring ...

So, we spoke to Cambridge University’s Professor Janet Todd, author of the freshly-released Living With Jane Austen (which ...

But in Jane Austen’s original novel, the scene occurs inside, empty of any steady downpours or rolling hills in the background. And, in the novel, devoid of any hints of Mr. Darcy’s true ...

Anne Hathaway, Becoming Jane (2007). When Jane Austen died in 1817, her family censored many parts of her life and thought it’s best she was remembered as docile Aunt Jane. But Hathaway reminds ...

A show featuring never-before-seen family portraits is part of a year-long program celebrating 250 years since Jane Austen's birth. Cassandra's hand drawn copy from of a plate from an instruction ...

An academic (and Austen fan) has teamed up with an illustrator to publish The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography, a much layered approach to the author many think they know.

Dench’s Lady Catherine de Bourgh leaves every other actor who’s played Darcy’s aunt in the dust. She makes the dowager hard to please but easy to watch. “Do you play the pianoforte, Miss ...