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Uglow, Jennifer S.
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Losh, Sarah.
Architects -- England -- Biography.
Antiquarians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Visionaries -- Biography.
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Uglow, Jennifer S.
Losh, Sarah.
Architects -- England -- Biography.
Antiquarians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Visionaries -- Biography.
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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.
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