Episode 2

Miss Austen, based on Gill Hornby’s acclaimed novel, takes a real-life literary mystery – Cassandra Austen (Keeley Hawes) burning her sister Jane’s letters – and reimagines it as a fascinating, heartbreaking story of love, sacrifice, and loss.

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Episode 2

Season 2025 Episode 2 | 53m 5s | CC

Cassandra’s determination to keep Jane’s letters private is joined by a second objective: securing a home for Isabella. After a trip to town, Cassandra falls ill, and the past comes crashing in with her recollections of the difficult years.

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Why is Cassandra Austen determined to find the letters her sister Jane wrote to her friend Eliza?

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Through her fevered delirium, Cassandra guards Jane’s letters from her sister-in-law Mary Austen.

Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking and Raymond James with additional support from public television viewers and contributors to The MASTERPIECE Trust, created to help ensure the series’ future.

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