A new PBS 'Masterpiece' series uses Austen's sister Cassandra as a window into the lives of unmarried Regency women ...

Adaptations of the author’s wise and witty novels have long entertained film and TV audiences. This year—the 250th ...

Author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan spoke about adapting Hornby's novel for television and why readers ...

Anointed “the queen of British telly” overseas, the actress leads a series about Austen’s prim older sister, who torched most ...

In “Miss Austen,” though, she’s humanized as a deeply devoted sister who just wanted to keep Jane’s most unfiltered thoughts ...

Most of Jane Austen’s correspondence was burned after her death. This PBS Masterpiece series speculates as to why.

PBS’s ‘Masterpiece’ presents a four-part drama about Jane Austen and her elder sister, Cassandra, who burned the bulk of the ...

When Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, her older sister, Cassandra, was overcome with grief. “She was the sun of my life, ...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice reminds us that some of the most romantic moments are neither a kiss nor a spoken word, but ...

"Miss Austen," which premieres on PBS on May 4, offers an entirely plausible backstory on why Jane Austen's older sister may ...

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

Based on the popular novel by Gill Hornsby, “Miss Austen” focuses on Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) who, ...