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"Turner and Memory": a lecture by Jenny Uglow
We are delighted to announce that on 18 November Jenny Uglow will deliver a lecture for the Art History Seminar on the subject of “Turner and Memory”.
Jenny Uglow OBE is the current Chair of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.
Her books include Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories, Hogarth: A Life and a World, The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future, Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration and The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh. She's also editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women and The Vintage Book of Ghosts, and author of short studies of George Eliot and Henry Fielding, as well as A Little History of British Gardening and Words & Pictures, a look at relationships between writers and artists, from the illustrators of Milton and Bunyan, to Dickens and Phiz and Lewis Carroll and Tenniel.
Jenny also reviews for press and radio and has been a historical consultant on BBC classic serials, including Wives and Daughters, Daniel Deronda, The Way We Live Now, He Knew He was Right, North and South, Bleak House, Lost in Austen and Little Dorrit, as well as the films of Pride and Prejudice, Amazing Grace and Miss Potter. 
Her latest book, In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815, is a crowd biography of the experience of different people from all classes and ages - a view of the home front through twenty years of war.
ALL WELCOME!
- Venue
- King's College, KCF7