How much of Ms. Jane Austen's personal life, wishes and dreams was brought into her work? But what about her Irish lover?
and was a close friend of the family, was a solid match for Cassandra. In Miss Austen, screenwriter Andrea Gibb imagines Jane’s mixed emotions as the preparations for her beloved sibling’s ...
Jane Austen (Patsy Ferran) is dead. Decades later, her spinster sister Cassandra (Keeley ... friendship and their most important relationship of all, family. “You and I will always be sisters ...
In a discussion hosted by 'New Yorker' writer Alexandra Schwartz at New York’s 92nd Street Y on March 27, authors Jennifer ...
As Jane Austen turns 250, a definitive ranking of her novels and why the true power of Austen is still to be found in her written work ...
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 ...
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 ...
Secondary characters include Elizabeth’s older sister Jane, her younger sisters Mary, Catherine (Kitty) and Lydia, Charles Bingley, Mr and Mrs Bennet and George Wickham. There are many ...
We tend to think of Jane Austen as the first great female ... Stars” guest who wrote “Bookshelf,” is a fan of Austen. But her point in the book, subtitled “A Rare Book Collector’s ...
Jane Austen fans will be "flocking" to the ... books and personal items" connected to Austen's close circle of family and friends during her time living in Southampton. And in June, a street ...
Bonnets at the ready, with 2025 marking two and a half centuries since Jane ... comedy shows, an Austen invasion is under way this year with various reinterpretations of her work being offered ...
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 ...