Miss Austen is based on Gill Hornby's best-selling novel and takes a fictional look at why Cassandra Austen may have destroyed the letters of her sister Jane. The four-part drama, starring Keeley Hawes as Cassandra, explores how, in the 1830s, the spirited spinster tries to retrieve Jane’s correspondence and keep it a secret from prying eyes, in order to preserve the author's legacy. But as Cassandra reads the letters, they remind her of the choices she has made in the past and her own painful romantic history…
Miss Austen recaps
