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  1. Jan 23, 2020 · This historical novel looks at the life of ‘Miss Austen,’ but not, perhaps, the one you expect. For the title character is Cassandra Austen, sister of Jane, and protector of her legacy. It is March, 1840, and a, now elderly Cassandra, returns to Kintbury, the previous home of the man she was once betrothed to.

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    • Gill Hornby
  2. Apr 7, 2020 · In exchange for receiving the book, I will participate in a discussion on BookBrowse along with other avid readers. The book was originally published in hardback in April 2020; the paperback version will be available in April 2021. Miss Austen, the main character of the story, is Cassandra, Cassy, Austen, Jane’s sister.

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    • Gill Hornby
  3. Jan 22, 2020 · Partially narrated by Cassandra Austen, Jane’s beloved sister, and partially epistolary, Miss Austen is a delightful family story of love, humour, obligation and sadness, with a touch of mystery. Gill Hornby has set the story up in a way that allows the reader to get to know Jane both personally, through letters, and within the context of her ...

  4. Miss Austen by Gill Hornby focuses on Cassandra (see Beyond the Book), Jane's older sister, constant companion and literary executor of her estate. Always concerned about the legacy that Jane will leave, when Cassandra learns that the parsonage where the Fowles—extended family and great friends of the Austens—lived is being claimed by the replacement clergyman, she invites herself to stay.

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    • Gill Hornby
  5. May 14, 2020 · Cassy, two years older, was the steady, dependable one, always with an eye on the wellbeing of her far more fragile sister. Miss Austen begins in 1840 with the unannounced arrival of Cassy at the home of Isabella Fowle, the daughter of a departed, dear friend of both sisters. It is more than 20 years after Jane’s death, and the elderly Cassy ...

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  6. Apr 4, 2020 · Miss Austen By Gill Hornby Flatiron Books, 2020. Gill Hornby’s new novel Miss Austen is an elegant and involving book, but it carries a crushing burden. It’s set in the quiet country parishes of 19th century England, but underneath its crinoline and taffeta, it’s attempting to engage our tender sympathies for one of the greatest monsters in English-language literary history: Cassandra ...

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  8. Jan 3, 2022 · The final book I read in 2021 was one that I very much enjoyed: Gill Hornby's Miss Austen. The title character is not, as you might expect, the famous novelist Jane Austen, but her elder sister Cassandra. Cassandra, who outlived Jane by nearly thirty years, is known to have burned many of her sister's letters,…

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