Jane Austen: A Penguin Life

Carol Shields


Jane Austen, the acclaimed author of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, and others, was a ground-breaking writer of her time and one who continues to influence others more than a century later. Carol Shields explores the life of this amazing woman who wrote in a time period when women were not considered capable or suitable to wear a writer's cloak.


This summary is courtesy of McNaughton Books