Jennifer S. Uglow

Standard Name: Uglow, Jennifer S.
Used Form: Jenny Uglow

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Birth Elizabeth Gaskell
EG was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson at 93 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, her parents' eighth and youngest child.
Accord to biographer Jenny Uglow , at the time of Elizabeth Gaskell's birth, this address was known as Lindsey Row.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
Critic Jenny Uglow considers this one of the finest Victorian examples of the ghost story.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
Critic Jenny Uglow argues that My Lady Ludlow is an important—an original and brave
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
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book—although its experiment in creating a feminine fiction based on women's lives, carefully observed, is not entirely successful. In terms...
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Gaskell
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,
Uglow, Jennifer S. “Manuscript Moments”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 181-5.
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in a fast-flowing hand...
Textual Features Elizabeth Gaskell
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...
Textual Features Julia Wedgwood
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
Textual Production Margery Lawrence
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).
Clute, John, and John, 1949 - Grant, editors. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. St Martin’s Press, 1997.
under Lawrence, Margery

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Texts

Uglow, Jennifer S., and Frances Hinton, editors. Continuum Dictionary of Women’s Biography. 2nd ed., Continuum, 1989.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
Uglow, Jennifer S. “Introduction”. The Virago Book of Ghost Stories, edited by Richard Dalby, Virago, 1987, p. ix - xvi.
Uglow, Jennifer S. “Manuscript Moments”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 181-5.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Nature’s Engraver. Faber and Faber, 2006.
Uglow, Jennifer S. The Pinecone. Faber and Faber, 2012.
Uglow, Jennifer S. The Virago Book of Ghost Stories. Editor Dalby, Richard, Virago, 1987.