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

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

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

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

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

Mary Austen (Jessica Hynes), the haughty widow of Cassandra’s brother James, is bustling around with notions of commissioning a joint biography of Jane and her late husband—whose ...

has teamed up with an illustrator to publish The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography, a much layered approach to the author many think they know. ‘There’s nothing worse than falling ...

“Everything one needs to know about Jane Austen is to be found within the pages of her novels,” Cassandra claims as Mary reveals plans to publish her own tell-all biography. The slowly unfoldi ...