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Miss Austen viewers might be wondering if it is a true story 🔎

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2 hours ago BBC One's Miss Austen full cast for period drama starring Keeley Hawes and Rose Leslie

A new period drama called Miss Austen starts on BBC One with two major stars

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15 hours ago Miss Austen cast: who are BBC actors and where have you seen them before

Miss Austen’s cast has been confirmed for the BBC drama 📺

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15 hours ago Miss Austen on BBC One review: this Jane Austen origin story is slow as treacle

This split-timeline examination of the Austen sisters’ lives fails to get the pulse racing

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39 hours ago What drove Jane Austen's sister to become one of literature’s most notorious vandals

A new BBC drama explores one of the most vexing acts of sabotage in literary history: the decision by Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra to burn nearly all the writer’s letters after her death. Keeley Hawes and the cast, as well as the series director, talk to Katie Rosseinsky about what might have motivated Cassandra, the perils of being unmarried and female in Regency England and the extraordinary love that existed between the two sisters

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41 hours ago What drove Jane Austen's sister to become one of literature's most notorious vandals

A new BBC drama explores one of the most vexing acts of sabotage in literary history: the decision by Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra to burn nearly all the writer’s letters after her death. Keeley Hawes and the cast, as well as the series director, talk to Katie Rosseinsky about what might have motivated Cassandra, the perils of being unmarried and female in Regency England and the extraordinary love that existed between the two sisters

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