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Queen jokes about Pride And Prejudice lake scene during literary festival

Camilla attended a reception at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, alongside writers and actors.

Evening Standard

Queen Camilla jokes that aristocrat should ‘re-enact’ Pride and Prejudice lake scene

“Maybe, William, we can persuade you to re-enact the scene here to add to the excitement of the day?” the Queen said

The Independent UK

‘It led me to some risky places’: The book that made me who I am today, by Tessa Hadley, Kate Mosse and more

HAY FESTIVAL 2025: Eight enigmatic authors speak to Annabel Nugent about the singular book to define them as writers and people

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Miss Austin viewers are ALL saying the same thing about the BBC show, with some calling the Keeley Hawes drama 'perfection'

Miss Austin fans are unanimous in their approval

WhatToWatch

In Miss Austen, Jane is sadly two-dimensional – so unlike her heroines

3/5 There’s much to admire in this series about Jane and her sister Cassandra, who inexplicably burned many of the writer’s letters, but it cannot quite nail the great author’s piercing satire

The Independent UK

What drove Jane Austen's sister to become one of literature’s most notorious vandals

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 letters after her death. Keeley Hawes and the cast, as well as the series director, talk to Katie…

The Independent UK

How to watch Miss Austen online – stream Keeley Hawes period drama free

Meet the other Austen sister in this lavish new period drama. Here's how to watch Miss Austen online anywhere.

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Gill Hornby: ‘Jane Austen created the six best novels in the English language’

The writer on her third novel, Miss Austen, being turned into a TV drama, what we get wrong about the much-loved author – and why she would never write a book with her husband, Robert Harris

The Guardian - UK

Best Regency romance novels for your collection

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Evening Standard

Miss Austen: US release date, full season guide: plot, cast, interview and more

Miss Austen is a lavish period drama starring Keeley Hawes and Rose Leslie.

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Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby review – a page-turning Austen romp

This fictionalised life of the governess employed by Jane Austen’s brother wittily toys with the conventions of the genre

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