I found this book review fascinating, as it followed the 1st episode of the BBC mini series of ‘Miss Austen’. How moving it is to consider Cassandra Austen’s motivation for burning her sister Jane’s letters. I found myself torn between regretting Cassandra’s action, and understanding why she chose to do it, and believing that she did the right thing.

I also cannot help hoping a secret, hitherto-unknown hoard of letters from Jane still remains, somewhere, waiting to be discovered…