Millions of viewers have tuned in to Miss Austen, the Sunday night drama starring Keeley Hawes as the author's older sister, Cassandra.
Miss Austen is on BBC 1 on Sundays, 9.05pm.Her novels are lauded the world over for their flawless prose.
But The Mail on Sunday can reveal glaring historical inaccuracies in the BBC's four-part series, while eagle-eyed fans have been debating the many howlers online. When Jane and Cassandra stay at the Bigg-Withers family house, the fire in the dining room is in fact a modern gas fire. And a dealer in antique clocks has pointed out a late 19th-century French clock on a mantelpiece
Furniture has fans fuming, too. The high-back sofa which the sisters perch on is Victorian. So too are the upright armchairs and mirror-fronted wardrobes in the bedrooms.
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