Based on the popular novel by Gill Hornsby, “Miss Austen” focuses on Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) who, through flashbacks, unravels their family story and their close ...

Anointed “the queen of British telly” overseas, the actress leads a series about Austen’s prim older sister, who torched most ...

The period drama, starring actor Keeley Hawes as Cassandra Austen, premiered in the U.K. on BBC One in February to favorable reviews. Hornby was joined by executive producer Christine Langan of ...

She spared her heroines the social and financial precarity she suffered. Solitary in middle age, Hawes’ Cassandra—also never married—is roused from a cozy routine of talking to goats and ...

The series opens with a middle-aged Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) visiting her family friends’ home to find the letters she knows are stashed away there. Once she does, she dives into the pages upon ...

I’m not sure it’s enough. Based on Gill Hornby’s 2020 novel of the same name, it stars Keeley Hawes as a middle-aged Cassie who hightails it to the home of old family friends in the village ...

Keeley Hawes will star opposite Paapa Essiedu in Channel 4's new drama Falling. Written by Adolescence creator Jack Thorne, Hawes will star as nun Anna alongside Essiedu as David, a Catholic priest, ...

To destroy someone’s letters, back in pre-email days, was a mild act of rebellion; to destroy Jane Austen’s letters was to alter literary history. Though the great novelist would surely have ...

In one, years after Jane’s death, Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) rushes to the home of longtime family friend Isabella (Rose Leslie), whose father has just died. The visit is, on the surface ...