Jenny Uglow
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The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future
Jenny Uglow
In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toymaker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor, and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles). Later came Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen…
Hogarth: A Life and a World
Jenny Uglow
William Hogarth (1697-1764) was perhaps London’s greatest and best-known chronicler. The exuberant expansion and upheavals of city life furnished him with the subjects of the elaborate prints that made him famous, and that remain our finest and most fantastic visual record of eighteenth-century England.
Evoking Hogarth’s fierce nationalism, his philanthropic vision, and his antagonistic dance with London’s artists and patrons, Jenny Uglow’s acclaimed biography “crackles with vitality and sparkles with insights” (Michael Holroyd). In the company of his…
