Sybil & Cyril - Cutting through Time

From one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.

About the author

Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria and now lives in Canterbury. 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. The Pinecone, published in 2012, tells the story of Romantic visionary Sarah Losh and was described as 'a quiet masterpiece'. Jenny's most recent book, In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 was longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Jenny is Chair of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.

Summary

From one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Uglow, Uglow Jenny
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780571354153
• ISBN: 978-0-571-35415-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: general, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Biography: arts & entertainment, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography: arts and entertainment