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

Masterpiece's new historical drama Miss Austen is an uneven exploration of the life of the less famous sister of Jane Austen.

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

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.

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

How is it that her stories are still being retold, in Hindi, English, Japanese, Tamil? It comes down to her eye for people, ...

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

Would we even know the name Jane Austen if she hadn’t taken such good care of the vivacious but also fragile, depressive writer in life and her work in death? Elsewhere at the Fowles’ home ...