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Sure, you're familiar with Cassandra Austen, but what about Mary, Isabella, or Eliza? Here's how everyone's connected in the ...
The themes of family and sisterhood come to life in PBS’s four-part miniseries with its debut earlier this month ...
The royal that Jane Austen is most often connected with is the Prince Regent, or the future King George IV, as he requested a ...
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 ...
Most of Jane Austen’s correspondence was burned after her death. This PBS Masterpiece series speculates as to why.
In Gill Hornby’s 2020 novel Miss Austen, the author builds a story around the fact that Jane Austen’s older sister Cassandra burned the letters Jane wrote to a friend, Eliza Fowle. The letters ...
So, we spoke to Cambridge University’s Professor Janet Todd, author of the freshly-released Living With Jane Austen (which coincides with Austen’s 250th birthday) and 2006′s The Cambridge Introduction ...