William Hogarth, Paperback

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...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.