Everything you need to know about the upcoming period drama, based on Gill Hornby’s novel ‘Miss Austen’, starring Keeley Hawes.

Scenes from Miss Austen were also filmed in Austen’s home in Chawton. The novelist lived in the village during one of the most fruitful periods of her life. Emma, Persuasion and Sanditon were all written in the Hampshire hamlet, where she lived with Cassandra and their mother.

There is a long and rich history of onscreen adaptations of Jane’s enduring love stories from BBC’s 1995 Pride and Prejudice adaptation starring Colin Firth to Netflix’s unique take on Persuasion with Dakota Johnson as our literary heroine.

Based on Gill Hornby’s novel of the same name, Miss Austen takes this real-life incident and reimagines it as a fascinating story of sisterly love, where Cassandra emerges as an Austen heroine in her own right.

A drama that marks Jane Austen's birth 250 years ago is coming to the BBC - here's the cast list and how you can watch it this February.