A new PBS 'Masterpiece' series uses Austen's sister Cassandra as a window into the lives of unmarried Regency women ...

Author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan spoke about adapting Hornby's novel for television and why readers ...

Adaptations of the author’s wise and witty novels have long entertained film and TV audiences. This year—the 250th ...

Anointed “the queen of British telly” overseas, the actress leads a series about Austen’s prim older sister, who torched most ...

In “Miss Austen,” though, she’s humanized as a deeply devoted sister who just wanted to keep Jane’s most unfiltered thoughts ...

Most of Jane Austen’s correspondence was burned after her death. This PBS Masterpiece series speculates as to why.

PBS’s ‘Masterpiece’ presents a four-part drama about Jane Austen and her elder sister, Cassandra, who burned the bulk of the ...

When Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, her older sister, Cassandra, was overcome with grief. “She was the sun of my life, ...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice reminds us that some of the most romantic moments are neither a kiss nor a spoken word, but ...

Cassandra Austen, sister to the beloved novelist Jane, was a talented amateur artist. She is finally getting her moment in ...

Yet for Janine Barchas, internationally admired Jane Austen scholar and UT English professor, such a task was irresistible.

"Miss Austen," which premieres on PBS on May 4, offers an entirely plausible backstory on why Jane Austen's older sister may ...