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Join celebrated author, broadcaster, lecturer and award-winning travel writer Lucinda Hawksley as she explores the travel writing of her great, great, great Grandfather Charles Dickens, discovering his many fascinating journeys overseas through her latest book Dickens and Travel (2022). 

This event will be followed by a book signing with the author, with the opportunity to purchase Dickens and Travel. 

About the speaker – Lucinda Hawksley is an art historian who has also written three biographies of female artists: Kate Perugini (née Dickens), Princess Louise and Lizzie Siddal. Her other books include, Letters of Great Women (2021), Elizabeth Revealed (2018), Dickens and Christmas (2017), The Writer Abroad (2017), Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper and Arsenic in the Victorian Home (2016), Charles Dickens and his Circle (2016), Moustaches, Whiskers & Beards (Facial Hair in Art) (2014), and March, Women, March: Voices of the Women’s Movement (2013). 

Lucinda co-wrote and narrated The Real Sherlock, a six-part podcast series about Arthur Conan-Doyle, for Audible. She has also written and narrated, for Audible, the introductions for Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. She is a Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London and of the De Morgan Foundation. 

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