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A Gambling Man - Charles II and The Restoration by Jenny Uglow
Category: Biography
Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old. Certainty had vanished. The divinity of kingship fled wi ...Show more
A Gambling Man: Charles II and The Restoration by Jenny Uglow
Category: Biography Memoir
Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old. Certainty had vanished. The divinity of kingship fled wi ...Show more
A Little History of British Gardening by Jenny Uglow
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did the potato seem really, really weird when it arrived on our shores? This lively 'potted' history of gardening in Britain takes us on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for decking and ornamental grasses ...Show more
Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow
Category: Biography Memoir
Winner, 1995 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Jenny Uglow is a guest at the 2004 NZ Post Writers and Readers Week in Wellington.
George Eliot by Jenny Uglow
Category: Biography
One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about. Intellectual and independent, she had the strength to defy polite society with her highly unorthodox private life, so why did she deny her fictional characters the same opportunities?
In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
Category: History
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 or a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers ...Show more
In These Times - Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
Category: History
A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historianWe 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 vil ...Show more
In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
Category: History
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 or a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers ...Show more
Mr Lear - A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow
Category: Biography
Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustratedbiography of Edward Lear, shortlisted for Waterstone's Book of the Year, and a Telegraph and Spectator Book of the Year.
Mr. Lear - A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow
Category: Books
A sparkling biography of the poet and artist Edward Lear by the award-winning biographer Jenny UglowEdward Lear, the renowned English artist, musician, author, and poet, lived a vivid, fascinating life, but confessed, "I hardly enjoy any one thing on earth while it is present." He was a man in a hurry, ...Show more