The author suggested Jane may have been given medication containing arsenic. Ashford explored her theory in her 2011 novel The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen and even claimed there could have ...

The series explores why Cassandra Austen (played by Keeley Hawes) burnt the personal letters of her sister Jane (Patsy Ferran) after the latter's death. The series is scheduled to air on Sunday ...

Austen, it seems, understood human nature more than most. With a new Austen drama hitting our screens on ITV this week, the time is ripe to revisit some of her best-loved quotes: If you want to ...

Cassandra burning her sister, Jane Austen's letters, has been avidly discussed among historians and is now dramatised in BBC ...

Jane Austen is one of the world’s best-loved novelists. This year is the 200th anniversary of her death and to mark the occasion events are being held across the county of Hampshire in southern ...

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