To date, 160 of an estimated 3,000 letters have been found and preserved. Most were destroyed by Cassandra before her death ...

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

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

And in doing my research, I discovered that all Austen biographers hate Cassandra because she’d burned so many of Jane’s letters. I was rather astonished that Cassandra was treated as such a ...

Miss Austen details how Cassy Austen might have had a second chance of romance with the (fictional) Henry Hobday, but ...

Years after Jane's death in 1817 from an unknown illness, Cassandra, to whom her sister had written most days when they were apart, burned almost all of her letters. I imagine they would have ...

In Gill Hornby’s 2020 novel Miss Austen, the author builds a story around the fact that Jane Austen’s older sister Cassandra burned the letters Jane wrote to a friend, Eliza Fowle. The letters ...

Miss Austen On Masterpiece Sunday, May 18 Back-to Back Episodes Tonight! 8:00 pm. Episode 3 Through her feverish delirium, Cassandra guards Jane’s letters from Mary Austen. As she drifts... Read More ...

The series, like the book, attempts to recast Cassandra more positively, along with her motive for destroying Jane’s letters, which includes keeping them away from family members like the sly ...

Cassandra’s determination to keep Jane’s letters private is joined by a second objective: securing a home for Isabella. After a trip to town, Cassandra falls ill, and the past comes crashing ...