Get to know the talented cast of the miniseries Miss Austen, including Keeley Hawes, Rose Leslie, Alfred Enoch, and more.

2. William and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen: A Family Record, rev. and enlarged by Deirdre Le Faye (London: British Library, 1989), 77 (hereafter cited as Family Record). 3. Quoted in ...

Let’s be honest—whenever there’s a period drama based on Jane Austen or her life, we’re in. But Miss Austen on PBS isn’t your typical bonnet-and-ballroom story.

In “Miss Austen,” though, she’s humanized as a deeply devoted sister who just wanted to keep Jane’s most unfiltered thoughts from leaking out into a potentially unforgiving world. “Miss Austen,” ...