{"id":325,"date":"2003-07-17T16:34:03","date_gmt":"2003-07-17T20:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/17\/carol-shields\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T02:00:54","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T06:00:54","slug":"carol-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/17\/carol-shields\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Shields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a227\"><\/a>  <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/artsCanada\/stories\/shieldsobit170703\">Carol Shields<\/a> died on Wednesday night in Victoria after a five-year battle against breast cancer.  <em>&#8220;She took up writing largely out of frustration as a reader, saying she couldn&#8217;t find enough interesting books about women&#8217;s lives.&#8221;<\/em>  About her latest book, <em>Unless<\/em>, Constance Rooke said <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/ottawa\/story.asp?id=D34A31BB-B3F8-4675-BB5E-6B5D517B0EE0\">in the <em>Ottawa Citizen<\/em>&#8216;s obituary<\/a> that <em>&#8220;&#8216;It&#8217;s a book that has a great deal of feminist anger.  [&#8230;] Carol was aware that women generally suffer from diminution and invisibility in certain kinds of situations.&#8217;  Rooke said that because of the gentleness and tenderness in Shields&#8217; books &#8216;there was the risk of her work being seen as just celebrating the quiet domestic life.&#8217;   But Shields needs to be understood as a feminist writer, she said, one who &#8216;suffered from the condescension that Jane Austen did.'&#8221;<\/em>  Amid the many international obituaries (including <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/17\/books\/17CND-SHIELD.html?ex=1059105600&amp;en=6df65bef9cf38d70&amp;ei=5062&amp;partner=GOOGLE\">this excellent one<\/a> in the <em>NY Times<\/em>), <em>BBC<\/em> published <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/3075443.stm\">a brief excerpt<\/a> from <em>Unless<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol Shields died on Wednesday night in Victoria after a five-year battle against breast cancer. &#8220;She took up writing largely out of frustration as a reader, saying she couldn&#8217;t find enough interesting books about women&#8217;s lives.&#8221; About her latest book, Unless, Constance Rooke said in the Ottawa Citizen&#8216;s obituary that &#8220;&#8216;It&#8217;s a book that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}