The life of Jane Austen – and the celebrated books she wrote – has been pored over hundreds of times, by millions of fans and scholars. And she needs no introduction: this is the mind that brought us Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma.
But fewer people know about her sister, Cassandra. That’s all about to change thanks to the BBC’s new series, Miss Austen. It’s set to explore the life and times of the Austen sisters – neither of whom married and who were, by all accounts, extraordinarily close.
