num_pages: 192
description: With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen , Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra. She reveals both the very private woman and the acclaimed author behind the enduring classics Sense and Sensibility , Pride and Prejudice , and Emma . With its fascinating insights into the writing process from an award–winning novelist, Carol Shields’s magnificent biography of Jane Austen is also a compelling meditation on how great fiction is created.
language: English
title: Jane Austen: A Life
titlecomplete: Jane Austen: A Life
characters: Jane
genres: Canada, Historical, Biography, Literature, Classics, Autobiography, Nonfiction, British Literature, History, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 4385
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: RBC Taylor Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
publisher: Penguin Books