Happy 50th Birthday to Keeley Hawes who portrayed Jane Austen's beloved sister Cassandra in the four-part historical drama series Miss Austen based on the novel by Gil Hornby.
She is also married to Matthew Macfayden (aka Mr. Darcy)!
#janeausten #missausten #keeleyhawes #cassandraausten
In the first place I hope you will live twenty-three years longer. Mr Tom Lefroy's birthday was yesterday, so that you are very near of an age.
Jane Austen to Cassandra, 9 Jan 1796 #JaneAusten #Letters
Happy birthday, #CassandraAusten!
Urodziny Cassandry Austen! 9 stycznia 1773 r. urodziła się siostra Jane – malarka i autorka portretu pisarki, który znamy do dziś. #CassandraAusten (fot. Wikipedia)
[PARUTION - 17/10/2025] « Si l'oeuvre de Jane Austen a traversé les époques, la femme derrière la romancière reste étonnamment méconnue. Ses lettres à sa soeur Cassandra, sa meilleure amie et plus fidèle confidente, permettent [...] » www.lalibrairie.com/livres/lettr...
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“There were twenty Dances & I danced them all, & without any fatigue. – I was glad to find myself capable of #dancing so much.”
#JaneAusten to #CassandraAusten, December 24, 1798
Off to the #ball on the final night of the #JaneAustenSocietyofNorthAmerica - New York Capital Region #Regency Retreat.
She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow, I had not a thought concealed from her, & it is as if I had lost a part of myself.
#CassandraAusten to Fanny Knight, 20 July 1817
Jane Austen d #OTD 1817
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Austen lovers, have you watched "Miss Austen" yet? #missausten #janeausten #cassandraausten #review #periodrama
“Next week shall begin my operations on my #hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend”
#JaneAusten letter to #CassandraAusten, Oct 1798
My favorite bonnet is hard to narrow down but this one from #Austentation is special, bring modeled on one from the 1995 Sense & Sensibility
See the Forgotten Paintings Made by Jane Austen's Older Sister, Cassandra: A new exhibition at the Jane Austen House in England includes six artworks that are going on public display for the first time @SmithsonianMag #JaneAusten #CassandraAusten #ArtExhibition #ForgottenArt #LiterarySisters
Fans de la #JaneAusten, tenim això a la BBC @bbciplayer.bsky.social
amb la Keeley Hawes i la Jessica Hynes.
#MissAusten #CassandraAusten
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We have 2 very different Jane Austen biographies, amongst our antiquarian books for auction this week.
#antiquarian #history #books #JaneAusten250 #janeausten #cassandraausten #missausten #biography #bookauction
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Austens, Fowles, Cravens, & Lloyds: the Kintbury connection
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Now we may sit back and enjoy a lovely period drama while preserving the distinction between fact and fiction.
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Notice that the letters Cassandra burnt were addressed to her. No evidence that she rifled through other people's possessions to destroy their correspondence.
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Her letters to Aunt Cassandra (for they were sometimes separated) were, I dare say, open and confidential - My Aunt looked them over and burnt the greater part, (as she told me), 2 or 3 years before her own death.
Caroline Austen, My Aunt Jane Austen. A Memoir
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She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow, I had not a thought concealed from her, & it is as if I had lost a part of myself. 💔
#CassandraAusten
#JaneAusten d #OTD 1817
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In the first place I hope you will live twenty-three years longer.
#JaneAusten to her sister Cassandra, 9 Jan 1796 #Letters
Happy 250th birthday, #CassandraAusten!
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