Uglow has spoken of several guiding principles that underlie her choice of subjects and her approach to biographical writing. Byatt has called “a novelist's imagination as well as a historian's”
Focusing typically on her the intellectual life of Eighteenth and Nineteenth England, she has become particularly well known for her illuminating group portraits charged with what A.S. Over the last thirty years Uglow has earned a place as one of Britain’s most distinctive literary and cultural biographers. They live in Canterbury and Cumbria and have four grown-up children - Tom, Hannah, Jamie and Luke - and six grand-children - Matilda, Max, Felix, Billy, Cassie and Dash.
She is married to Steve Uglow, Professor Emeritus at Kent Law School, the University of Kent. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was created an OBE in 2007. 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. 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. Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography ( 2005) Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick (2006) Words and Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition ( 2008) A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration (2010) The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine-Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary (2012) In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 (2015) Her books include George Eliot (1987) Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories (1993) Henry Fielding (1995) Hogarth: A Life and a World (1997) Dr Johnson, His Club and Other Friends (1998) The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730–1810 (2002).
At Chatto, she edited such stellar titles as AS Byatt's novels since Possession, Edmund White's Genet, David Kynaston's four-volume history of the City, and Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton by her close friend since college, Hermione Lee. Until 2012, she was Editorial Director of Chatto & Windus, part of Random House. Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria and Dorset and studied English at Oxford.
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