Jenny Uglow

Jennifer Sheila Uglow OBE FRSL (née Crowther,[1][2] born 1947) is an English biographer, historian, critic and publisher.

[3][6] She is an honorary visiting professor at the University of Warwick,[7] vice-president of the Gaskell Society[8] and a trustee of the Wordsworth Trust.

Uglow later wrote: I embarked on the Macmillan Biographical Dictionary of Women in a fit of pique because all reference books were full of men: it was a mad undertaking, born of a time when feminists wanted heroines and didn't have Google.

[13][14] Subsequent works have moved further into the past, with subjects including 18th century author Henry Fielding (1995), and artists William Hogarth (1997) and Thomas Bewick (2006).

"[18] Frances Spalding considers Nature's Engraver to be "immeasurably enriched by Uglow's canny grasp of period detail.

The New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman complains that Uglow overvalues Hogarth's paintings and neglects his artistic associates in favour of his literary ones.

[3][24] Uglow has edited collections of writings by Walter Pater (1973) and Angela Carter (1997), as well as co-editing a set of essays about Charles Babbage (1997).

[27] She acted as a historical consultant on several period dramas for the BBC, including Wives and Daughters (1999), Daniel Deronda (2002), He Knew He Was Right (2004), North and South (2004), Bleak House (2005) and Cranford (2007), as well as for the films Pride and Prejudice (2005) and Miss Potter (2006).

[3][31] According to the charity Booktrust, Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick was the nonfiction work most often selected as "book of the year" by critics in 2006.