MISS AUSTEN - BBC, PBS Masterpiece 2025 - Four episode mini-series based on the book by Gill Hornby. It is 1830, thirteen years after Jane Austen’s death. Despite letters asking her not to come, Jane’s spinster sister Cassandra is racing to the deathbed of the Reverend Fowle. Why? Historically, Cassandra Austen is notable for three …
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AUSTEN AT SEA BY NATALIE JENNER
Austen at Sea by Natalie Jenner - St. Martin’s Press, 2025 - Set in the American post-civil war era, the story revolves around two sets of American siblings, Henrietta and Charlotte Stevenson, the daughters of a Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice, and Nicholas and Hazlett Nelson, veterans of the civil war, who operate a rare bookshop …