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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Uglow, Jennifer S.     Subjects     Losh, Sarah.     Architects -- England -- Biography.     Antiquarians -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Visionaries -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Uglow, Jennifer S.       by title:      The pinecone : the s...       by call number:      720.92 L879u     Search the Web     Uglow, Jennifer S.     Losh, Sarah.     Architects -- England -- Biography.     Antiquarians -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Visionaries -- Biography.       MARC Display

The pinecone : the story of Sarah Losh, forgotten romantic heroine--antiquarian, architect, and visionary / Jenny Uglow. by Uglow, Jennifer S. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. Call #: 720.92 L879u Subjects Losh, Sarah.   Architects -- England -- Biography.   Antiquarians -- Great Britain -- Biography.   Visionaries -- Biography. ISBN:  9780374232870 (hc.) 0374232873 (hc.) Alternate title:  Sarah Losh, forgotten romantic heroine--antiquarian, architect, and visionary Edition:  1st American ed. Description:  xi, 332 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Notes:  Originally published in 2012 by Faber and Faber Limited, Great Britain. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "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--here 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 brings to life an extraordinary woman, a region, and an age"--Provided by publisher. "A biography: A thrilling portrait of Sarah Losh, a forgotten architectural genius of the nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Biography 720.92 L879u Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Biography 720.92 L879u Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Home Delivery - HN Adult Biography 720.92 L879u Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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