Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Jennifer Sheila Uglow OBE (née Crowther, born 1947) is a British biographer, historian, critic and publisher. Until retirement in 2013, she was an editorial director of Chatto & Windus. She has written critically acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and the Lunar Society, among others, and has also compiled a women's biographical dictionary.She won the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2003 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future 1730–1810, and her works have twice been shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. In 2014, her study of the home front during the Napoleonic Wars, 'In These Times' was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and long listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2010, she was appointed President of the Alliance of Literary Societies. In 2015, she became chair of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature."@en }
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- Jenny_Uglow abstract "Jennifer Sheila Uglow OBE (née Crowther, born 1947) is a British biographer, historian, critic and publisher. Until retirement in 2013, she was an editorial director of Chatto & Windus. She has written critically acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and the Lunar Society, among others, and has also compiled a women's biographical dictionary.She won the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2003 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future 1730–1810, and her works have twice been shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. In 2014, her study of the home front during the Napoleonic Wars, 'In These Times' was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and long listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2010, she was appointed President of the Alliance of Literary Societies. In 2015, she became chair of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.".