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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;…

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Articles

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

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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. Jenny reviews for press and radio and has been a historical consultant on  several BBC classic serials and films.  She was created an OBE in 2008 and was winner of…

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