... 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.