Jennifer S. Uglow

EG was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson at 93 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, her parents' eighth and youngest child.

The letters have provided the basis for more detailed biographies than were hitherto possible. Jenny Uglow 's Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories (1993) interweaves a feminist account of the life with attention to her...

Critic Jenny Uglow considers this one of the finest Victorian examples of the ghost story.

Critic Jenny Uglow argues that My Lady Ludlow is an important—an original and brave book—although its experiment in creating a feminine fiction based on women's lives, carefully observed, is not entirely successful. In terms...

Despite the historical research, and setting aside later attention to getting dialect words exactly right, EG penned this work, says her biographer Jenny Uglow , page after page, without correction, in a fast-flowing hand...

JW was an energetic letter writer. Her letters to Emelia Russell Gurney , which cover an eleven-year span beginning in 1865, were collected by Gurney's niece in 1902. Wedgwood's sketch of Linlathen (Thomas Erskine

Its heroine, Charlotte Clopton, is buried alive in a vault in the decaying family mansion; the family history devolves into litigation. Critic Jenny Uglow notes that the story inaugurated EG 's sustained use of Gothic...

ML 's ghost stories have been frequently anthologised. They appear in, for instance, Fifty Strangest Stories Ever Told (1937), The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century (1987), and Vampire Stories (1993).