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Shields, Carol. Jane Austen: a life.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)

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From: Kliatt
Date: 20050901
Author:Pucci, Anthony

SHIELDS, Carol. Jane Austen: a life. Penguin Books. 185p. bibliog. c2001. 0-14-303516-9. $13.00. SA

Shields, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (she died in 2003), was eminently qualified to explore the life of Jane Austen. Given that only 160 of Austen's letters survive and that no portrait exists, relatively little is known of her short life. Nevertheless, Shields resists the temptation to read into Austen's novels for clues to the life of the author. Instead, she focuses on various periods in her life and presents a portrait of Austen that is at once illuminating and ...

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