When they get to seven times seven, Isabella prompts him by saying 'rise and shine' – a modern bingo rhyme for the number 49 that was devised two centuries later, in the 1960s.
When they get to seven times seven, Isabella prompts him by saying 'rise and shine' – a modern bingo rhyme for the number 49 that was devised two centuries later, in the 1960s] When Jane and Cassandra stay at the Bigg-Withers family house, the fire in the dining room is in fact a modern gas fire.
Millions of viewers have tuned in to Miss Austen, the Sunday night drama starring Keeley Hawes as the author's older sister, Cassandra.
Based on the novel by Gill Hornby, it focuses on Cassandra's mission to destroy almost 3,000 of Jane's letters after her death at the age of 41 in 1817.
Experts point out that much of the architecture, with bay windows and wide corridors, is from the Victorian era, 1837-1901, not the period covered in the drama, which flits between 1790 and 1830.
