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Jenny Uglow is an author, critic, historian, editor and consultant.

Jenny Uglow is an acclaimed author, editor, critic and consultant.

Books

Jenny Uglow’s latest book, Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense is an illustrated biography of Edward Lear, as natural history artist, landscape painter, travel writer and outsider – as well as the much-loved author of ‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat’ and a host of hilarious limericks. Her other books include:  Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories;…

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Articles

Jenny’s articles and reviews have appeared in many places including the Times Literary Supplement and BBC History Magazine as well as the  Guardian, the New York Review of Books  and online  in the NYR Daily. She has also written catalogue essays on artists from Stubbs and Bewick to Conrad Shawcross, Grayson Perry and Quentin Blake. (She never…

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About

Jenny  grew up in Cumbria and Dorset and studied English at Oxford. Until 2012, she was Editorial Director of Chatto & Windus, part of Random House. Her latest book, Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense, won the Hawthornden Prize in 2018. A study of  the illustrator Walter Crane will be published in  the…

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