It is the starting point, too, for Gill Hornby’s 2020 novel Miss Austen, adapted now as a four-part BBC One period drama, and asking the simple question: why did Cassandra Austen destroy so many ...

Cassandra rushes from the Austen home Chawton Cottage in Hampshire to Kintbury in Berkshire, to the home of her late childhood friend Eliza Fowle whose husband Fulwar is also about to die.

The story weaves together fact and fiction in an attempt to solve the enduring mystery of why Cassandra Austen (portrayed by Keeley Hawes) destroyed most of her younger sister Jane Austen's ...

Some fans of Austen are also curious about the love life of her older sister Cassandra, who chose not to marry. The Chair of The Jane Austen Society told Express.co.uk that "men were short" during ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) At the heart of the BBC's new series Miss Austen is a fictional Cassandra Austen (played by Keeley Hawes). Reviews have stressed that the real life Cassandra's ...

Thanks for all the love for the show!" The four-part drama, based on Gill Hornby's novel of the same name, follows the story of Cassandra Austen, Jane Austen's devoted sister, played by Keeley.

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