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In These Times Jenny Uglow

In These Times By Jenny Uglow

In These Times by Jenny Uglow


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Summary

Every part of Britain felt the long twenty years of war against the French: one in five families had people in the services and over 300,000 men died. This book tells the story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century ahead.

In These Times Summary

In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow

The sharply-observed characters and constant pricks of humour make this book seem almost as if Jane Austen had written a history of her own times. (Lucy Worsley The Times). We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic wars - but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank or a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers - how did the war touch their lives? Every part of Britain felt the long twenty years of war against the French: one in five families had people in the services and over 300,000 men died. As the years passed, so the bullish, flamboyant figure of Napoleon - Boney, the bogeyman - came to dominate so much that the whole long conflict was given his name. Jenny Uglow, the prize-winning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war, but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray, Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Jane Austen, Wordsworth, Scott and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century ahead.

About Jenny Uglow

Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria and now works in publishing. Her books include prize-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. The Lunar Men, published in 2002, was described by Richard Holmes as 'an extraordinarily gripping account', while Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, won the National Arts Writers Award for 2007 and A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize. She lives in Canterbury.

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GOR006310980
9780571269525
0571269524
In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Faber & Faber
20141106
752
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