In Miss Austen, Jane is sadly two-dimensional – so unlike her heroines - 3/5 There’s much to admire in this series about Jane ...

As Miss Austen, a new series focused on Cassandra Austen, debuts on the BBC, we delve into the history of the other Austen ...

Miss Austen is based on the hit 2020 novel by Gill Hornby and tells the story of the family through Jane’s sister Cassandra, ...

New documents discovered at Longleat suggest legendary author Jane Austen may have drawn direct inspiration from the ...

Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) sets out to protect 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 ...

This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth and, as celebrations get under way across the country, we remember her impact ...

Miss Austen, the BBC’s newest series, has all the hallmarks of any Jane Austen book. There are suitors. There are spinsters.

Jane Austen enthusiasts are being asked to help transcribe a handwritten manuscript biography of her brother Francis. The unpublished text details the life, travels and naval career of Admiral Sir ...

A new BBC drama explores one of the most vexing acts of sabotage in literary history: the decision by Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra to burn nearly all the writer’s letters after her death. Keeley ...

The Jane Austen Festival (September 12–21), plus a nautical Persuasion ball (May), a seaside Sanditon ball (June) and a ...

Jane Austen was famous for her books on middle ... Henry also wrote a special biography about Jane to go alongside the books, where he revealed her identity as the author of all of her novels.

Newly discovered documents at Longleat suggest Jane Austen may have drawn inspiration from the Wiltshire estate.