Phyllis Logan & Simon Hepworth star in ‘Miss Austen’

Phyllis Logan & Simon Hepworth star in ‘Miss Austen’

28.1.2025

Phyllis Logan & Simon Hepworth star in brand new BBC drama Miss Austen 

‘Miss Austen’ has been adapted for television by BAFTA-winning writer Andrea Gibb (Elizabeth is Missing, Mayflies) and 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.

The drama begins in 1830, many years after Jane has died, Cassandra rushes to visit Isabella, the niece of her long-dead fiancé, who is about to lose her home following her father’s death. Cassandra is ostensibly there to help Isabella, but her real motive is to find a hidden bundle of private letters which, in the wrong hands, she fears could destroy Jane’s reputation. On discovering them, Cassandra is overwhelmed as she is transported back to her youth. The trailer also sees Young Cassy and Jane in flashback as they navigate the romantic infatuations, female friendships and dashed hopes which shaped their lives, and laid the foundations for Jane’s unforgettable stories.

Miss Austen is released in BBC1 and BBC iPlayer on Sunday 2nd February.

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