Jennifer Sheila Uglow is an English biographer, historian, critic and publisher.
20 Facts About Jenny Uglow
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Jenny Uglow has written critically acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick, and Edward Lear, and a history and joint biography of the Lunar Society, among others, and has compiled The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography.
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Jenny Uglow is a past president of the Alliance of Literary Societies and has chaired the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Jenny Uglow attended Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Anne's College, University of Oxford.
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Jenny Uglow is an honorary visiting professor at the University of Warwick, vice-president of the Gaskell Society and a trustee of the Wordsworth Trust.
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Jenny Uglow was formerly a member of the British Library's Advisory Group for the Humanities.
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Jenny Uglow compiled an encyclopaedia of biographies of prominent women, first published in 1982; the work is currently in its fourth edition and contains more than 2,000 biographies, though later versions have involved other editors.
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Jenny Uglow's biographies have been particularly praised for their vivid, detailed recreation of the time and place in which their subjects lived.
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Jenny Uglow's non-biographical writing includes a history of gardening in Britain, written for the bicentenary of the Royal Horticultural Society in 2004, which Jenny Uglow describes as a "labour of love".
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Jenny Uglow is a reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books and The Independent on Sunday.
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Jenny Uglow has edited collections of writings by Walter Pater and Angela Carter, as well as co-editing a set of essays about Charles Babbage.
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Jenny Uglow has written introductions to several works by Elizabeth Gaskell.
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Jenny Uglow presented The Poet of Albion, a BBC Radio 4 programme on William Blake, part of a series marking the 250th anniversary of the poet's birth; the programme emphasised Blake's radicalism.
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Jenny Uglow has twice appeared on the Radio 4 discussion programme, In Our Time.
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Jenny Uglow acted as a historical consultant on several period dramas for the BBC, including Wives and Daughters, Daniel Deronda, He Knew He Was Right, North and South, Bleak House and Cranford, as well as for the films Pride and Prejudice and Miss Potter.
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Jenny Uglow is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Jenny Uglow is a past chair of its Council, and as of 2017, serves as one of its vice-presidents.
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Jenny Uglow was awarded the society's Benson Medal in 2012.
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Jenny Uglow has been awarded honorary degrees by the University of Birmingham, University of Kent, Staffordshire University and Birmingham City University.
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For Mr Lear, Jenny Uglow was awarded with the Hawthornden Prize in 2018.