Book description
Words and Pictures explores three fascinating examples of
relationships between artists and writers: the illustrations of
Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress; Hogarth and Fielding, a writer
and artist dealing with common material; Wordsworth and Thomas Bewick,
a poet and engraver working separately, but imbued with the spirit of
their age. A brief coda turns to a fourth kind of relationship, the
writers and artists who collaborate from the start, beginning with
Dickens and Phiz. Illustrated throughout with a wide variety of
examples, this is a book to pore over and enjoy.
Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria, and now works in publishing. Her
books include prize-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and
William Hogarth. The Lunar Men, published in 2002, was described in
the Observer as 'a spectacular, epic book ... Never has the eighteenth
century come so much to life,' while her most recent book, A Little
History of British Gardening, was called 'a delight from beginning to
end' in the Observer. She lives in Canterbury.
