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How long does it take to read Eliza's Daughter?

Joan Aiken

Eliza's Daughter by Joan Aiken takes about 6 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 44 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1994. 367 pages, about 100,925 words.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 13 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 44 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 12 minutes

The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A Young Woman Longing for Adventure and an Artistic Life...Because she's an illegitimate child, Eliza is raised in the rural backwater with very little supervision. An intelligent, creative, and free-spirited heroine, unfettered by the strictures of her time, she makes friends with poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, finds her way to London, and eventually travels the world, all the while seeking to solve the mystery of her parentage. With fierce determination and irrepressible spirits, Eliza carves out a life full of adventure and artistic endeavor.PRAISE FOR JOAN AIKEN"Others may try, but nobody comes close to Aiken in writing sequels to Jane Austen."PublishersWeekly"Aiken's story is rich with humor, and her language is compelling. Readers captivated with Elinor and Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility will thoroughly enjoy Aiken's crystal gazing, but so will those unacquainted with Austen."Booklist"...innovative storyteller Aiken again pays tribute to Jane Austen in a cheerful spinoff of Sense and Sensibility."Kirkus Reviews

Subjects: Fiction, Young women, Fiction, historical, general, Young women, fiction, Fiction, general, England, fiction

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