Leading biographer Jenny Uglow (whose subject Edward Lear spent considerable time on Corfu documenting its natural assets) is an English biographer, historian, critic and publisher; formerly editorial director at Chatto & Windus. In addition to Edward Lear she has written critically acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth and Thomas Bewick and a history of the Lunar Society. She has chaired the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.