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The series features Keeley Hawes as Jane Austen's elder (and only) sister, Cassandra, and Jessica Hynes as Jane Austen's sister-in-law, Mary. Rose Leslie is the Austen's family friend Isabella and Mirren Mack is her servant Dinah. Also in the cast are Max Irons and Alfred Enoch. [3]
The following year, Jane travels to London where another of her brothers, Henry, lives. She asks him to accompany her to negotiate with her publisher over her new novel, Emma . Henry suddenly becomes ill, and Jane is helped by a young and handsome doctor, Charles Haden, who heals her brother and is able to help secure Emma' s publication.
Pride & Prejudice is a 2005 historical romantic drama film directed by Joe Wright, in his feature directorial debut, and based on Jane Austen's 1813 novel.The film features five sisters from an English family of landed gentry as they deal with issues of marriage, morality, and misconceptions.
Hawes plays Cassandra, the sister of literary great Jane Austen, who infamously burned Jane’s letters after her death. ... Jane.” Joining Hawes and Leslie in the cast are Jessica Hynes (Years ...
Jane Austen’s literary works have inspired many successful film and television adaptations, including the 2005 iteration of Pride & Prejudice. Pride & Prejudice closely follows Austen’s 1818 ...
THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: A new BBC drama explores one of the most vexing acts of sabotage in literary history: the decision by Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra to burn nearly all the writer’s ...
The characters peopling the young Jane's life are plainly recognisable as the prototypes for her most celebrated characters: Walters' anxious mother and Cromwell's strong, fair-minded Mr. Austen are clear relatives of Pride & Prejudice ' s Mr. and Mrs. Bennet; Smith's aloof, disdainful dowager exemplifies the snobbery and social climbing that ...
Jane Austen's parents, George (1731–1805), an Anglican rector, and his wife Cassandra (1739–1827), were members of the landed gentry. [1] George was descended from wool manufacturers who had risen to the lower ranks of the gentry, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and Cassandra was a member of the Leigh family of Adlestrop and Longborough , with connections to ...