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Jenny Uglow

Author of The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World

Includes the names: Uglow J, Jenny Uglow, Jennifer Uglow, Jennifer S. Uglow, Jenny Jennifer S.; Uglow Uglow, Jennifer S. - compiler and editor Uglow

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Works by Jenny Uglow

The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World 658 copies, 7 reviews
A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game 188 copies, 10 reviews
Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick 178 copies, 5 reviews
Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories 150 copies, 1 review
Hogarth : a life and a world 122 copies, 1 review
George Eliot 105 copies
The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic… 92 copies, 2 reviews
A Little History of British Gardening 90 copies, 1 review
In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 89 copies, 8 reviews
Cultural Babbage: Technology, Time and Invention (Editor) 48 copies
Dictionary of Women's Biography 47 copies
Words and Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition 33 copies
Dr. Johnson, His Club and Other Friends (Character Sketches) 14 copies, 1 review
The Vintage Book of Ghosts 13 copies

Henry Fielding 2 copies

'The Other Side of Science' in NYRB 57/11, 24 June 2010 [review of… 1 copy

A Winning End-Game: Francis Cotes, William Earle Welby and His Wife… 1 copy

North and South 1 copy

A A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration 1 copy

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Also by Jenny Uglow

Mary Barton (Introduction, some editions) 1,824 copies, 47 reviews
Granta 65: London (Contributor) 183 copies
Cousin Phillis (Foreword, some editions) 163 copies, 7 reviews
Illyrian Spring (Introduction, some editions) 143 copies, 9 reviews
Cranford and Other Stories (Introduction, some editions) 114 copies, 6 reviews
Curious, If True: Strange Tales by Mrs. Gaskell (Introduction, some editions) 63 copies, 1 review
Miss Potter [2006 film] 56 copies, 1 review
Cranford,The Cage at Cranford,Mr Harrison's confessions,My Lady Ludlow (Introduction, some editions) 1 copy

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Uglow, Jenny

Date of birth

1947

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female

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England, UK

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Places of residence

Canterbury, Kent, England, UK

Cumbria, England, UK

Dorset, England, UK

Education

Cheltenham Ladies College

St Anne's College, Oxford

Occupations

Relationships

Uglow, Steve (husband)

Organizations

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)

University of Warwick (Honorary Visiting Professor)

Chatto & Windus

Awards and honors

Order of the British Empire (2008)

Fellow, Royal Society of Literature

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Jenny Uglow is an editor at Chatto & Windus and lives in Canterbury, England, with her family. She is Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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