Lucinda will be at the Charles Dickens Museum to speak about Anny Thackeray. When researching her biography of Dickens’s artist daughter, Katey, Lucinda Hawksley became fascinated by Anny Thackeray, a close friend of the Dickens girls. Anny was the older daughter of the novelist William Thackeray and she became a famous novelist in her own right. In her own time, she was celebrated for her writing, like so many women, however, her achievements have since been forgotten by history. Come along on 30 July and find out all about the famous Victorian writer you’ve probably never heard of! Anny was a brilliant and fascinating woman, whose story deserves to be much better known.
There will be the opportunity for a short Q+A following the talk.