Jane Austen
by:
Carol Shields (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780754045984 (0754045986)
Publish date: June 28th 2001
Publisher: Chivers
Pages no: 205
Edition language: English
I read this book as part of the Dead Writers Society's Genre Fiction Challenge for June 2016 and the Literary Birthday Challenge for 2016. At this point I am wishing I chose the other book for the genre challenge. I don't know what to say here besides this entire book read as someone who seemed to t...
I was drawn to Carol Shields' Jane Austin, A Life because I admire Shields' work as a novelist and because I am in the clutches of a severe attack of Austenitis. It hits me annually, sometimes accompanied by a far less pleasurable bout of gout. Thankfully the gout went away, but the Austen fever lin...
Amazing that so short a book could be so unsatisfactory for so many reasons. Just a few examples:Shields insists all throughout the book that Austen "longed" all her life to be married, and that any happiness she managed to find was because she learned to live with disappointment. (Shields also ment...
Short, concise, but fun and written with sparkle.
A very enjoyable and engaging biography of Jane Austen. I never fully realized how isolated Jane Austen was from any community of artists. She was fortunate to have a supportive family who read and encouraged her work and sympathized with her setbacks and frustrations, but as an artist, she was very...
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