I assume that if one shows up on a popular bike route wearing the uglo-clothing but riding a bike that cost less than a grand, one will be spat upon and jeered at until one slinks away in socioeconomic shame. .... ride a road/ racing bike anyway, the difference might not be as immediately noticeable. A hybrid or a mountain bike has got more material, and so making that material lighter by 50%+ is pretty dramatic. (I ride a hybrid, and the vacation bike was also a hybrid.) ...
She regularly collapsed in exhaustion and took bed-rest vacations to recover her health and spirits, often with one or more of her children but usually without her husband, who also worked himself hard as a minister, teacher (of the mill workers in ... I spent last year reading the Uglow bio slowly while I read most of Gaskell's works in the order they were written. If you scan my list of labels, you'll find posts on all the novels and many of the stories and novellas. ...
the portrait was stored at browse and darby until uglow's death in 2000 at the age of 68. it was transferred to the care of the artist's estate, the executors of which include lord irvine, and is now held by the marlborough fine art ...
