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; Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick; A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration; In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815; A Little History of British Gardening and The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh. Her biography of Edward Lear, Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense, was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize, 2018.
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