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The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine--Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary Hardcover - 2013

by Jenny Uglow


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In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical Victorian church in England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed, passionate, and unusual in every way. Sarah Losh is a lost Romantic genius--an antiquarian, an architect, and a visionary. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Losh combined a zest for progress with a love of the past. In the church, her masterpiece, she let her imagination flower--there are carvings of ammonites, scarabs, and poppies; an arrow pierces the wall as if shot from a bow; a tortoise-gargoyle launches itself into the air. And everywhere there are pinecones in stone. The church is a dramatic rendering of the power of myth and the great natural cycles of life, death, and rebirth. Losh's story is also that of her radical family, friends of Wordsworth and Coleridge; of the love between sisters and the life of a village; of the struggles of the weavers, the coming of the railways, the findings of geology, and the fate of a young northern soldier in the First Afghan War. Above all, it is about the joy of making and the skill of unsung local craftsmen. Intimate, engrossing, and moving, The Pinecone, by Jenny Uglow, the Prize-winning author of The Lunar Men, brings to life an extraordinary woman, a region, and an age.

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  • Title The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine--Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary
  • Author Jenny Uglow
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 332
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Date 2013-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780374232870 / 0374232873
  • Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.37 x 6.41 x 1.11 in (23.80 x 16.28 x 2.82 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Architects - England, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012029937
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/2013, Page 27
  • Books & Culture, 07/01/2013, Page 14
  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2012, Page 0
  • New York Review of Books, 04/04/2013, Page 64
  • New York Times Book Review, 02/10/2013, Page 26
  • New Yorker (The), 02/25/2013, Page 81
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/05/2012, Page 0

About the author

Jenny Uglow's books include prizewinning 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 won the National Arts Writers Award for 2007. A Gambling Man was short-listed for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Uglow grew up in Cumbria and now lives in Canterbury, England.

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