UPDATED: Masterpiece on PBS has released a new trailer for Miss Austen, its four-part miniseries based on Gil Hornby’s novel, which takes a deeper look at Cassandra Austin’s ( Keeley Hawes) bond and ...

Keeley Hawes stars in a new trailer for the PBS Masterpiece drama series, Miss Austen. Watch it now before the series ...

BATH, United Kingdom - Ballgowns are being stitched, bonnets brushed and tea rooms prepped as the United Kingdom prepares to ...

We tend to think of Jane Austen as the first great female novelist, whose originality paved the way for creative descendants ...

Miss Austen’s Jane is played by Patsy Ferran as witty, acerbic and, crucially, devoted to fiction. She is utterly determined to become a published author and her family support her in this pursuit.

W hen the writer Joan Didion died in December 2021, she left behind a literary legacy of five novels and 13 pieces of ...

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice begins with one of the most famous—and ironically misunderstood—opening lines in English ...

Rise Of a Genius is the story of how a self-taught young woman from a small Hampshire village became one of the greatest novelists who ever lived ...

Actress Tamsin Greig is joining a host of other stars in a new BBC documentary series celebrating the life of Jane Austen.