Miss Austen is a four-part historical television series. It stars Keeley Hawes and Jessica Hynes. It is an adaptation by Andrea Gibb of the novel Miss Austen by Gill Hornby. Aisling Walsh directed the series, while Stella Merz produced for Bonnie Productions and Masterpiece.

In year 1830, Cassandra Austen, the sister of late Jane Austen, visits the family Fowle, when Reverend Fowle is dying, and promises him to help his daughter Isabella find a new home. Additionally, she looks for the letters Jane has written in her youth to Fowle's wife Elizabeth, planning to destroy them so that the private themes discussed cannot stain Jane's reputation. Mary Austen, James Austen's widow, also looks for these letters, in order to write a biography about her late husband. Reading the letters, Cassandra reminisces the past, which is shown in flashbacks. These cover Cassandra's engagement to Tom Fowle who dies soon after, Mary's marriage to James Austen, losses of relatives and homes for the Austen family, new chances for love, Jane's literary trials and successes, and end before her death. Cassandra burns most of the letters, except for a few she leaves for Mary to discover, and departs after finding a man for Isabella.

Aisling Walsh directed the four-part series and also acts as executive producer. Other executive producers on the series were Susanne Simpson for Masterpiece, Christine Langan for Bonnie Productions, Polly Williams for Federation Stories, Keeley Hawes who stars and Andrea Gibb, who also adapted the book by Gill Hornby. Filming got underway in November 2023.^[1]

The series features Keeley Hawes as Jane Austen's elder (and only) sister, Cassandra, and Jessica Hynes as Jane Austen's sister-in-law, Mary. Rose Leslie is the Austen's family friend Isabella and Mirren Mack is her servant Dinah. Also in the cast are Max Irons and Alfred Enoch.^[2]

In June 2025, it was reported that pre-production was beginning on a sequel series, Miss Austen Returns.^[3]

In December 2023 the BBC acquired the rights to show the series in the UK, and it was broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer from 2 February 2025.^[4][5][6]

The series' broadcast on Masterpiece on PBS began on 4 May 2025.^[7]

Shivani Gonzalez in The New York Times noted that although "the characters are all based on real life people in Austen’s life, the actual story lines here are mostly fictional”.^[8]

Lucy Mangan in The Guardian awarded the series four stars and praised the performance of Keeley Hawes.^[9]