Why Cassandra burned Jane Austen's letters has been a cause of ongoing literary dispute, and is now being dramatised by the BBC in the form of excellent period show, Miss Austen. If you're a fan ...

It is the starting point, too, for Gill Hornby’s 2020 novel Miss Austen ... Jane, starring Anne Hathaway as Jane and Anna Maxwell Martin as Cassandra – have stumbled in the past.

This adaptation should send viewers to read Gill Hornby’s novel, and to read and reread Jane Austen. Miss Austen embraces the possibilities of fiction in rethinking the lives of the past.

This re-evaluation of the past eventually leads Cassandra to find a way to guide Isabella towards the path of happiness. Keeley Hawes takes the lead in Miss Austen, as Jane’s elder sister Cassandra.

Why did Cassandra Austen burn the letters of her sister, famous author Jane Austen? Miss Austen, a new four-part drama launching on the BBC on Sunday and coming to PBS in the U.S. in May ...

The first Miss Austen trailer ... her sister’s (and her own) past, lest her private correspondence and intimate history become part of the official Jane Austen biography. But uncovering a ...

Miss Austen, the BBC’s newest series ... and the far more compelling past, in which a young Jane and Cassandra (played by ...

Miss Austen debuts ... long after her sister Jane's death and decides whether she should burn or keep her sister's correspondence. There's then the timeline in the "past" where Cassandra and ...