

4.352 minSeason 1 • Episode 4
LatestMr Dundas and his wife prepare to move into the Kintbury vicarage, and the urgent question of Isabella’s future continues to occupy Cassandra.
Miss Austen takes a literary mystery – Cassandra Austen notoriously burning her famous sister Jane’s letters – and reimagines it as a fascinating, witty and heart-breaking story of sisterly love, while creating in Cassandra a character as captivating as any Austen heroine.
Acting
Keeley Hawes delivers career-best restraint and wreckage.
Writing
Wit that would make Jane proud, pain that would too.
Costume
Mourning blacks so detailed they tell their own story.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Cassandra Austen destroyed the vast majority of her sister's letters in the 1840s; only about 160 survive out of an estimated 3,000.
The series inverts the typical Austen adaptation: instead of finding romance, Cassandra deliberately buries it, making her the anti-heroine of her own story.