She knew it well as it was the home of the Lloyd sisters, who were friends of hers and her sister Cassandra.

Jane Austen's Letters to her sister Cassandra and others, ed.

"Well, what about Lizzie the Lezzie - you know, Austen and her sister Cassandra sharing the bed, neither of them marrying?"

Anna Maxwell Martin appeared as Jane's sister Cassandra.

Her sister Cassandra (to whom most of the letters were written) burned "the greater part" of the ones she kept.

She also wrote The History of England, which had 13 watercolour pictures by her sister Cassandra inside it.

How ironical was she when she wrote to her sister Cassandra, 'Weymouth is altogether a shocking place, I perceive, without recommendation of any kind'?

The strands of hair are believed to be have taken by Austen's sister Cassandra just before the coffin was closed.

Her sister Cassandra later remembered that it was read to the family "before 1796" and was told through a series of letters.

There are currently just two recognised portraits of Austen - one sketched by her sister Cassandra in 1810.