there wasn't enough information to create a biography that would have brought her new readers and new generations as is what happened with Jane Austen. Samuel Johnson was a giant of English ...

Meet the woman who lives like Jane Austen – from dressing in Regency ... watched every adaptation and read every biography she could find. Jessica, studied English at university and began ...

Jane Austen (Patsy Ferran ... A Mr Collinsesque vicar appears (“In my view [Jane] warrants a substantial biography,” he oozes) and unscrupulous sister-in-law Mary would give Sense and ...

Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) sets out to protect her sister’s (and her own) past, lest her private correspondence and intimate history become part of the official Jane Austen biography. But ...

James Edward Austen-Leigh did publish the first full biography of his aunt with the ... from fact in its depiction of an incident in Jane’s life in the early 1800s. She may have met a young ...

At the heart of the BBC’s new series Miss Austen is a fictional Cassandra Austen (played by Keeley Hawes). Reviews have stressed that the real life Cassandra’s ...