When her character first appeared in the 1990s Bridget Jones was a car crash, a figure of fun and definitely NOT a role model ...

During the early and mid-20th century, we saw a wealth of glittering actresses during Hollywood's Golden Age. Lasting from ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” rare-book dealer Rebecca Romney discovers overlooked women authors who inspired the famous ...

Jane Austen's life is posthumously explored in the new series Miss Austen, which follows her sister Cassandra in the years following Jane's death. Although Jane was - and remains - one of history ...

Miss Austen provides a captivating glimpse into the life of the renowned author. As a devoted fan of Jane Austen since my teenage years, I believed I had a comprehensive understanding of the ...

A fascinating, witty and heart-breaking story of sisterly love, Miss Austen is coming to BBC iPlayer and BBC One. Miss Austen takes a literary mystery – Cassandra Austen notoriously burning her ...

Towards the end of her life, in an act of near incomprehensible sabotage, the elder Austen sister burnt swathes of correspondence written by Jane, who had died almost 30 years earlier in 1817.

Promise. “Jane Austen is a lifestyle!” a young woman wearing a Pemberley slogan sweater tells me over Zoom, her passion palpable through the screen. “Not only can you read the novels ...

Jane Austen (Patsy Ferran) is dead. Decades later, her spinster sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) discovers that Jane’s letters – in all their acerbic, revelatory glory – are about to fall ...