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A Lady Desiring Journey and an Inventive Life, Since she is an illegitimate baby, Eliza is elevated in the rural backwater with hardly any guidance. An intelligent, innovative, and free-spirited heroine, unfettered from the strictures of her period, she makes friends with poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, finds her method to London, and ultimately moves the planet, even while trying to resolve the mystery of her parentage. With irrepressible tones and intense dedication, Eliza carves out a life saturated in experience and creative undertaking. REWARD FOR JOAN AIKEN "Others might attempt, but nobody comes near to Aiken written down sequels to Jane Austen." PublishersWeekly "Aiken's tale is loaded with laughter, and her vocabulary is persuasive.