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

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 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 Keeley Hawes as ...

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 ...