A Dickensian Christmas Talk with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

Lucinda Hawksley has worked as an interviewee, consultant and presenter on TV and radio shows worldwide. She has written three biographies of female artists: Kate Perugini (née Dickens), Princess Louise, and Lizzie Siddal. Her other books include, Victorian Christmas (2024), Dickens and Travel (2022), 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 is a lecturer in literature and art history, and has spoken at universities, libraries and museums around the world. She also teaches Life Writing for the University of Cambridge.  

Lucinda is a great great great granddaughter of Charles and Catherine Dickens, and a Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London. She is also the current President of the International Dickens Fellowship.