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.
Keeley Hawes
Cassandra Austen
Rose Leslie
Isabella Fowle
Patsy Ferran
Jane Austen
Jessica Hynes
Mary Austen
Mirren Mack
Dinah
Phyllis Logan
Mrs. Austen
Kevin McNally
Mr. Austen
Max Irons
Henry Hobday
Alfred Enoch
Mr. Lidderdale
Calam Lynch
Tom Fowle
Liv Hill
Young Mary
Synnøve Karlsen
Young Cassandra Austen
Carys Bowkett
Anna Austen
Florence Bell
Mary Jane Dexter
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.
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