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;…
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…
