"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth—and it is being celebrated with new books, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane Austen's letter to Cassandra is expected to sell for up to $400,000. - Sotheby's While Jane Austen is best known for ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Masterpiece’s latest period drama introduces audiences to a lesser-known Austen: Jane's sister Cassandra.

On Jane Austen’s tombstone in Winchester Cathedral in England, no mention is made of her achievements as a novelist. Instead, the epitaph written by her brother James celebrates how “the benevolence ...

For decades, English novelist Jane Austen has been a constant source of inspiration for filmmakers and TV creators looking to adapt her work, but also authors who want to expand her world and our ...

All the time she was writing, finding fame, growing older and falling ill, Jane Austen had the company of one person who knew everything and told nothing. When Jane died, sister Cassandra kept it that ...

Austen wrote the letter to her older sister on April 11, 1805, from Bath. Sotheby's Jane Austen’s closest confidante was her older sister, Cassandra. The two women—who were almost three years ...

Keeley Hawes, who stars as Cassandra Austen in the BBC drama, and director Aisling Walsh chime in on the debate along with writer Andrea Gibb who calls the show “a feminist piece.” By Georg Szalai ...

Decades after Jane Austen’s death in 1817, her older sister Cassandra burned nearly all of the author’s correspondence, much to the consternation of future fans and historians. Why were thousands of ...

Three rare Jane Austen-related treasures are hitting the auction block this October as part of a special sale dedicated to creative women from across history, courtesy of Sotheby’s New York. The ...

A round of sneers, please, for Cassandra Austen. Thanks to Cassandra and her pyrotechnical ways, we know a lot less about her famous sister Jane than we otherwise would. In 1843 Cassandra, chief ...

While Jane Austen is best known for skewering the vagaries of romantic love in her novels, there is another, equally complicated and meaningful type of relationship that runs through them, too — that ...