Keeley Hawes, who stars as Cassandra Austen in the BBC drama, and director Aisling Walsh chime in on the debate along with writer Andrea Gibb who calls the show "a feminist piece." ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” a rare-book collector sets out to “investigate” a group of overlooked female writers.

What they need to know is how genius Jane was as a writer ... And some of the appeal of Austen is just that the rules are more firmly set, and so you can see the inequalities very, very ...