In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a period drama based on the stories of Regency author Jane Austen will appear on BBC One on Sunday nights. And Miss Austen is no exception to this.

Seven reasons not to miss this new show. Miss Austen takes an historic literary mystery – the notorious burning of Jane Austen’s letters by her sister Cassandra – and reimagines it as a ...