Synopsis
Miss Austen (2025) is a British period drama you can watch online on iFILM. The story keeps Jane Austen off to the side and turns instead to her older sister Cassandra — the woman we can thank for knowing almost nothing about the novelist's private heart.
The year is 1830, and Jane has been gone for over a decade. Cassandra arrives to stay with her friend Isabella, but the visit hides a real errand: tracking down a bundle of old letters. They were written by Eliza, the late lady of the house, who had corresponded with Jane for years. Cassandra is certain that, in the wrong hands, those pages could ruin her sister's name. From there the series answers a question scholars have long puzzled over — why the real Cassandra Austen burned so much of Jane's correspondence. Not out of coldness, but love.
Keeley Hawes plays the older Cassandra, with Synnøve Karlsen as her younger self, back when the future keeper of secrets had a love story and a loss of her own. Adapted from Gill Hornby's novel and directed by Aisling Walsh, it's a quiet, finely drawn drama about sisterhood, loyalty and the price of guarding someone else's memory. For lovers of British costume drama and Austen herself, it's an easy yes. Stream Miss Austen online on iFILM.
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