In the year 2025, the regency period drama genre continues to dominate audiences. While anxiously awaiting more news bridgerton From Season 4 to the availability of period pieces on streaming, fans have an endless stream of the genre at their fingertips through their favorite streaming providers. Now, based on the novel Gil HornbyWe’re getting a new entry in this genre: miss austinPBS miniseries Stars on Masterpieces Keely Hawes As cassandra austinElder sister of the famous writer, jane austen Who gave us famous works: pride and Prejudice, sense and Sensibility, persuasion, and more. The trailer appears to follow dual timelines, with the role of Cassandra, played by Hawes, in the present, sometime after Jane Austen’s death in 1817 and while Jane was still alive, and the sisters were young women. patsy feron Jane plays more sinov carlson Plays the role of a young Cassandra. The logline is as follows:
“Miss Austen takes a literary mystery – Cassandra Austen infamously burned the letters of her famous sister Jane – and re-imagines it as a charming, funny and heartbreaking story of sisterly love, with In Cassandra he created as captivating a character as any Austen heroine.”
Sisterhood of ‘Miss Austen’
Jane and Cassandra were the only daughters george And cassandra austinIn total, the Austens had eight children, Cassandra and Jane being the fourth and sixth respectively. None of the women married. Cassandra, a watercolourist, famously burned Jane’s letters posthumously. In the trailer, a character in voiceover is presumably telling Cassandra that Jane “understands matters of the heart better than anyone.” We get to see romance in the trailer, possibly in between rose leslie And alfred enochcharacters of. max irons ,Wife, callum lynch ,bridgerton), And Phyllis Logan ,Downton Abbey) will also star in the four-part series.
It is estimated that Jane wrote 3,000 letters to her sister, and only less than 200 survive. Most were burned or destroyed, and the surviving letters were censored by Cassandra to conceal anything inappropriate. Or would portray the Austen family in a negative light. While the series appears to be romanticizing the relationship between Jane and Cassandra, it will be interesting to see how Cassandra concludes that Jane’s words, the remaining pieces of her sister, do something with her after her demise. Seeing Hawes’s Cassandra make this decision may paint her less as an Austen heroine and more as a morally gray character.
miss austin It will premiere on PBS on May 4, the same year that marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth (December 16, 1775). Stay tuned to Collider for the latest updates.
