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PERRY BARR

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From: Birmingham Mail
Date: 20070219
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AUTHOR and historian Jenny Uglow has been awarded an honorary degree by a Birmingham university.

UCE Birmingham, in Perry Barr, has conferred a Doctor of the University degree in recognition of her outstanding literary achievements.

Her works Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories (1992) and Hogarth: A Life and a World (1997) were both short listed for the Whitbread Prize.

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