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 ...

An American rare-book dealer, Rebecca Romney, has managed it, by searching where Austen’s secrets lie hidden in plain sight: ...

Miss Austen takes an historic literary mystery – the notorious burning of Jane Austen’s letters by her sister Cassandra – and reimagines it as a fascinating, witty, and heart-breaking story ...

Reviews have stressed that the real life Cassandra’s destruction of her sister Jane Austen’s letters has been considered one of the greatest acts of literary vandalism in history. These ...

There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated novelist Jane Austen. But is she really the “first” great English female author?

why Hawes's Cassandra Austen really burned so many of Jane Austen's letters. It's said that she did so to protect the propriety of her extended family, but at least in Miss Austen, there's more to ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” however, she takes us along on a self-defined quest that grew out of her long admiration for Austen’s confident and witty writing. In her novels and letters ...