PBS Masterpiece has announced that the four-part period drama Miss Austen, based on the 2020 novel by Gill Hornsby, will premiere May 4, 2025. The series is adapted by award-winning writer Andrea Gibb (Elizabeth Is Missing, Mayflies).
Starring Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard, The Durrells in Corfu), the project's cast includes Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones), Synnøve Karlsen (Last Night in Soho), Patsy Ferran (Living), Max Irons (The Wife), Alfred Enoch (How to Get Away with Murder), Calam Lynch (Bridgerton), and Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey).
Miss Austen "takes one of the most prominent literary mysteries in history--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," PBS Masterpiece noted.