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Jenny Uglow

Biography

Jenny Uglow

Jenny Uglow’s books include prizewinning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. THE LUNAR MEN (FSG, 2002) was described by Richard Holmes as “an extraordinarily gripping account,” while NATURE'S ENGRAVER won the National Arts Writers Award for 2007. A GAMBLING MAN (FSG, 2009) was short-listed for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Uglow grew up in Cumbria and now lives in Canterbury, England.

Jenny Uglow

Books by Jenny Uglow

In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815
by Jenny Uglow - History, Nonfiction

We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars --- but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers --- how did the war touch their lives? Jenny Uglow follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people.