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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jamie Grierson

Artwork of Jane Austen’s older sister to go on show in house where siblings lived

A woman wearing gloves holds a brush to the frame of an artwork displayed with others on a table
Rebecca Wood, a museum officer at Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire, works on paintings by Cassandra Austen that form part of a new exhibition. Photograph: Ollie Thompson/Solent News

Perhaps most well-known for destroying thousands of her more famous sister’s letters, Cassandra Austen’s act of what some called literary vandalism overshadowed her accomplished skills as an artist.

But now the artwork of Jane Austen’s older sister – played by Keeley Hawes in the recent BBC drama Miss Austen – are to go on display together for the first time in the house where the siblings lived.

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