...she resurrects her hero by restaging the cultural tragicomedy that was Georgian London, with its Grub Street, gin craze, streetwalkers, and stars like Swift and Garrick - all bustle and business, scams and scandals, disorder and death... }Evening Standard{. Jenny Uglow is one of the most talented of contemporary biographers. }Hogarth{ is her masterpiece...a wonderful achievement Michael Holroyd. Paperback edition of this acclaimed biography, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. Review coverage guaranteed. 190 b/w illus, 8pp colour William Hogarth was an artist with overflowing imagination and his prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books. This book showcases the portrait of a proud, stubborn, comic, vulnerable man.
