Book description
High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some
of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary
Barton, North and South and Wives and Daughters. In this widely
acclaimed biography, Jenny Uglow shows her as an artist of
unrecognized complexity, a shrewd observer of life and a compelling personality.
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 by Richard
Holmes as 'an extraordinarily gripping account', while her most recent
biography, Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, won the National
Arts Writers Award for 2007. She lives in Canterbury.
