Books by Jenny Uglow and Complete Book Reviews

In These Times: Living in Britain Through the French Wars
In These Times: Living in Britain Through the French Wars, 1793–1815
Jenny Uglow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40 (752p) ISBN 978-0-374-28090-1
In a book with many components and little center, British historian Uglow (The Pinecone) sketches what it was like to be in Great Britain in the years of the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars. Her theme, delivered with deft strokes, is how the...
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Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
Jenny Uglow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $45 (608p) ISBN 978-0-374-11333-9
The beauty of this hefty and hearty book is that Uglow (In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793–1815), armed with her prodigious knowledge of 19th-century England, places her subject at center stage as she follows the...
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The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh
The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine -- Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary
Jenny Uglow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-23287-0
Biographer Uglow (The Lunar Men) redirects her attention and the same painstaking care she's brought to historical giants (including Charles II and William Hogarth) to the obscure figure of an Industrial Revolution heiress and Victorian architect,...
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