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Article: Carol Shields: Jane Austen: A Penguin Life.(Book Review)
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- International Fiction Review
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- January 1, 2005
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Carol Shields Jane Austen: A Penguin Life New York: Viking, 2001. Pp. 185. $19.95
We would naturally expect that Carol Shields, being a novelist, rather than a biographer, would write a rather different biography of Jane Austen than other writers that have essayed this topic recently. But we would be mistaken, at least in part, for Shields was a biographer. Her first book was a biography of Susanna Moodie, written for her Master of Arts in English at the University of Ottawa in 1974 and published in 1976, and her penultimate book was also a biography--her life of Jane Austen published a quarter of a century later, in 2001. Thus, biographies frame Carol Shields's ...