Season: 1 | Episode: 1 | Length: 60m
Juliet Stevenson narrates a dramatised documentary examining how Jane Austen became one of the world's most well-known and critically acclaimed novelists. At the age of 17, Jane lives in Steventon, Hampshire where her father owns a library of over 500 books. Immersed in the classics, history and the emerging genre of the novel, she decides to tell her own stories.