Learn what Miss Austen author Gill Hornby thinks of the TV adaptation airing on MASTERPIECE starring Keeley Hawes.

Let’s be honest—whenever there’s a period drama based on Jane Austen or her life, we’re in. But Miss Austen on PBS isn’t your typical bonnet-and-ballroom story.

Sure, you’re familiar with Cassandra Austen, but what about Mary, Isabella, or Eliza? Here’s how everyone’s connected in the ...

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 ...

A Judy Blume classic comes to the screen and Stanley Tucci returns to Italy in two of the new shows we're excited to watch on ...

Keeley Hawes stars in an immaculate period drama which attempts to justify why Cassandra Austen literally torched part of her ...

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 ...

The mystery as to why Cassandra Austen burned most of her novelist sister Jane’s letters not long after her death in 1817 is ...

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