Why Cassandra burned Jane Austen's letters has been a cause of ongoing literary dispute, and is now being dramatised by the ...

In the show, Cassandra reads many of these letters, transporting viewers between two timelines: the present in 1830 and the past when Jane and Cassandra were young. Masterpiece.

Why Cassandra burned Jane’s letters explained. Jane is done seeing doctors, and she wants to get back to her cottage. However, she is too sick to travel, and she remains in Winchester.

In early January 1796, 20-year-old Jane Austen wrote a gossipy letter to her beloved older sister, Cassandra. It had news of Jane's current crush, "a very gentlemanlike, good-looking, pleasant ...

Cassandra says her goodbyes to Isabella, Dinah and Mary and in the carriage home, Cassandra reads the letter that Dinah gave to her, which is Jane's last ever letter to Eliza.

While the letters are central to the drama, “Miss Austen” is also about Cassandra and her fiancé, Tom Fowle (Calam Lynch), whose family resided in Kintbury.

As Cassandra reads the letters, we see Cassy make attempts to pair a young, shy Mary (Liv Hill) with James, much to Jane’s consternation.

Oh, completely. Not just for the imagined letters in the book, but for Jane and her dialogue, too. I started to write a novel about Cassandra, but of course the sisters were so joined at the hip ...

Decades after Jane Austen’s death in 1817, her older sister Cassandra burned nearly all of the author’s correspondence, much to the consternation of future fans and historians. Why were ...