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

Books

Jenny’s most recent book, Sybil and Cyril: Cutting Through Time (November 2021), vividly illustrated throughout, tells the powerful story of two linocutters in the 1930s, Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power. Her other books include award-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth, as well as The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future;…

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…

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. Her study of the illustrator Walter Crane was published in the autumn…