… Ferran has spent the last few years playing ever more challenging characters on both stage and screen. One in particular is also a character-builder herself: Jane Austen. In the PBS series Miss Austen, based on Gill Hornby’s bestselling 2020 novel, Ferran plays the strong-willed and impishly observant author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, a wonder of charisma and comic timing. (She appears opposite Keeley Hawes as Cassandra, Janes’s older sister.) As fans celebrate the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth this year, they can also rejoice in a show that offers Regency-era charm, an intelligent ensemble cast, and a story that examines sisterhood, grief, and both the deference and defiance of women.
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