by Jenny Uglow · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571269532
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«In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815» is Jenny Uglow's historical essay, published by Faber & Faber in paperback.
Jenny Uglow reconstructs life in Georgian Britain during the Napoleonic Wars through diaries, letters and records of farmers, bankers, aristocrats and workers. Anonymous voices combine with those of Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Turner and Constable, in a portrait of the home front while the war was fought abroad.
The work has 752 pages and is in English; it was shortlisted for the 2014 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
For readers interested in British social history, the Georgian era and the Napoleonic period.
Jennifer Sheila Uglow is an English biographer, historian, critic and publisher, and a former editorial director of Chatto & Windus. She has written critically acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick, Edward Lear, and Gilbert White, as well as a group biography of the Lunar Society and a panoramic account of living in Britain through the Napoleonic wars.
