Keeley Hawes shines as Cassandra Austen in 'Miss Austen,' a PBS Masterpiece limited series adaptation of Gill Hornby's novel ...

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

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

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

The Gist: Cassandra lives alone on a big country estate; her maid hands her a letter from Isabella Fowle (Rose Leslie), ...

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

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

The Folio Society will publish a limited edition collection of Jane Austen’s complete novels to mark the 250-year anniversary of the author’s birth. The highly illustrated artisan edition ...

On first reading Jane Austen. A slim book of only 150 page, it encapsulates Jane’s life, her times, her works in a marvelous way. Fay Weldon first quotes the first paragraph of Emma ...

Dench’s Lady Catherine de Bourgh leaves every other actor who’s played Darcy’s aunt in the dust. She makes the dowager hard to please but easy to watch. “Do you play the pianoforte, Miss ...