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Gill Hornby’s intriguing and entertaining Miss Austen: A Novel of the Austen Sisters (2020) speculates why. Hornby’s ...
Learn what Miss Austen author Gill Hornby thinks of the TV adaptation airing on MASTERPIECE starring Keeley Hawes.
Author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan spoke about adapting Hornby's novel for television and why readers ...
The Gist: Cassandra lives alone on a big country estate; her maid hands her a letter from Isabella Fowle (Rose Leslie), ...
Keeley Hawes shines as Cassandra Austen in 'Miss Austen,' a PBS Masterpiece limited series adaptation of Gill Hornby's novel ...
Today, we're so excited to be welcoming author, Gill Hornby, to discuss her delightful book, "Miss Austen." - "Miss Austen" opens in 1840s England, two decades after Jane Austen's death ...
Miss Austen, based on Gill Hornby’s acclaimed novel, takes a real-life literary mystery – Cassandra Austen (Keeley Hawes) ...
All the time she was writing, finding fame, growing older and falling ill, Jane Austen had the company of one person who knew everything and told nothing. When Jane died, sister Cassandra kept it ...
Can they learn to work together, save their singing group and maybe even their community? Gill Hornby is a writer and journalist who has spent her life surrounded by novelists: her brother is Nick ...
Set in 1830, Miss Austen season 1 investigates why Jane Austen's sister Cassandra destroyed the majority of her personal correspondence following her death. It premiered on February 2, 2025, on BBC ...
Such is the case with “Miss Austen,” the 2020 novel by Gill Hornby. The fictional account focuses on Jane’s sister, Cassandra, and her decision to destroy much of Jane’s correspondence ...