Book description
What is Jane Austen about?
With the same sensitivity and artfullness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields here 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, this magnificent biography of Jane Austen is also a compelling meditation on how great fiction is created.
Shields provides an insider’s view of the writer’s world—which is what makes this biography so compelling.
