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Jane Austen: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) (Reprint Edition) by Carol Diggory Shields Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-14-303516-9 / 0143035169 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-303516-9 / 9780143035169 It's a perennial source of frustration to Jane Austen's admirers that so little is known about her quiet existence as an unmarried woman seeking an outlet for her ferocious intelligence in genteel, rural England at the turn of the 19th century. Carol Shields, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for The |