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The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine--antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary - Softcover
Synopsis
A portrait of the lesser-known 19th-century architectural master includes coverage of her radical Cumbrian family and her passionate creativity as demonstrated by her most notable achievement, a Victorian England church in the village of Wreay that features renderings of mythological symbols and life cycles.
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Review
Clearly focussed, wonderfully stimulating and surprisingly colourful. (Andrew Lycett Sunday Telegraph)
Uglow has produced a quiet masterpiece: a book to savour and treasure. (Miranda Seymour Sunday Times)
I don't know another book that feels quite like this one. (A. S. Byatt New Statesman Books of the Year)
It is a riveting story and Jenny Uglow makes the most of it. (John Martin Robinson The Spectator)
Jenny Uglow proves not only the importance of Sarah Losh, but shows what biography at its very best can do. (Frances Wilson Literary Review)
An exuberant match for the beautiful, ornate and movingly personal nature of Losh's extraordinary church. (Rachel Hewitt The Guardian)
Book Description
The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow explores the love, life and craftsmanship of Sarah Losh and brings to life an extraordinary Romantic heroine, a region and an age.
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0374534349
- ISBN 13 9780374534349
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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