250 years on, Jane Austen’s wit and legacy still captivate readers across generations. Jane Austen was born 250 years ago, but her work continues to entertain, delight, and inspire generations of ...

KEELEY HAWES TO LEAD IN ADAPTATION OF GILL HORNBY’S INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING NOVEL MISS AUSTEN on MASTERPIECE Sunday, ...

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 ...

But of course PBS Masterpiece is going to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. As a treat for all the Austen stans out there, the premier period piece destination is exploring the author’s life and ...

If I write, It is a truth universally acknowledged that to begin an essay with the words "It is a truth universally acknowledged" marks the writer out as a person of taste and good humor who has read ...

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 ...

“There is no greater comfort in this world than a sister,” says the first trailer for Masterpiece on PBS’ Miss Austen, premiering Sunday, May 4 at 9/8c. Fittingly, 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of ...

Jane Austen was definitely inventing a character, in Mary Crawford, there are lots of other things going on there, but there are some really specific traits, particularly this love of theatricals, ...

Andrew Davies, who adapted 'War & Peace' for the BBC, is working on the eight-part drama. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Sanditon, the unfinished Jane Austen novel written just months before the ...

Jane Austen needs no introduction. She's the original rom-com queen, writing novels in Regency-era England that gently satirized class and gender roles while also giving her readers classic romances ...

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 ...