… Everything about Miss Austen is masterly, from the individual performances to the interweaving of narrative strands past and present. And it manages to keep Jane as the presiding spirit without selling any of the other characters short. Mary is a masterpiece of natural malevolence further curdled by time and experience; Isabella is a finely drawn portrait of frustration; and Cassandra is a fully realised woman, shaped by grief and by love and sacrifice for her sister, and sharing the family fondness for oblique put-down…
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