Miriam Margolyes celebrates 200 years of Dickens on stage and screen
She was joined at the launch by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, writer and great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, and museum director Frankie Kubicki. …
Lucinda in the Italian Press
I, great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.
My commitment is to women.
The issue of femicide is extremely serious. Many men grow up harbouring distrust toward gender equality. …
Listen again to BBC Radio London Interview on the Eddie Nestor Show
Lucinda’s interview about the life of Charles Dickens on the 100th birthday of the Dickens Museum. Interview starts at approx. 1 hr 42 mins.
A day with the Dickens Dynasty at the Charles Dickens Museum
Monday 9 June 2025 was no ordinary Monday. In the heart of Bloomsbury, at 48 Doughty Street – the only surviving London home of Charles Dickens – history came alive in the most extraordinary way as the Charles Dickens Museum marked its 100th birthday. Even more poignantly, the day also commemorated 155 years since the … Read more
How Christmas became a publishing sensation
Since its publication on 19 December 1843, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens has never been out of print. It was an astonishing and instant success, selling out its first 6,000 copy print run in just five days. With the novella’s success, a new industry was created, and by December 1844, a plethora of seasonal titles had … Read more
Listen to Lizzie Siddal on BBC Radio 4 Extra
Struck by her good looks and her pale copper hair, the Pre-Raphaelite painters made Lizzie Siddal one of the best known faces of the Victorian era. An artist’s model from the London slums, she also made her mark as a poet and artist. This is her extraordinary story – written in five parts by Lucinda … Read more
President of the International Dickens Fellowship
On 24 August Lucinda will be sworn in as President of the International Dickens Fellowship. She will be taking over from the brilliant Professor Cathy Waters. …
A Tantalising Talk with Lucinda Hawksley and Humphrey Hawksley
We recently had the delight of hosting a rousing talk with award-winning authors Lucinda Hawskley and Humphrey Hawksley at Riverstone Kensington. This was the latest event in our ‘In Conversation With’ series, where residents and guests engage with figures in an intimate conversation. The speakers Humphrey Hawksley is an author and journalist who was a … Read more
Why it’s time to rescue Charlie Collins from his brother Wilkie’s shadow
This week’s bicentenary of the birth of Wilkie Collins – author of The Moonstone (1868) and The Woman in White, who regularly collaborated on plays and stories with his friend Charles Dickens – has rightly brought the Victorian author back to prominence. But less is known about his younger brother Charles (“Charlie”) Allston Collins, an artist and writer whose … Read more