by Jenny Uglow · Faber & Faber · tapa dura · ISBN 9780571269501
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«The Pinecone» is the biography of Sarah Losh written by Jenny Uglow, published by Faber & Faber in hardback (344 pages, in English).
Biography of Sarah Losh, builder of the singular church of Wreay (Cumbria). It interweaves her life with that of her radical family, friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge, and with the context: weavers, railways, geology and the Afghan war. It describes the building's carvings —ammonites, beetles, pinecones— as an allegory of myth and natural cycles.
«The Pinecone» was published in 2012. The full subtitle is 'The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine – Antiquarian, Architect and Visionary'.
A work for readers of historical biographies, architectural history and Victorian England.
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.
