I’m very excited to be taking part in the Ways With Words literature festival at Dartington Hall, in Devon. I’ll be speaking about my new book Charles Dickens and his Circle at 1.30pm on Weds 13 July 2016. You can book tickets here via their website: http://www.wayswithwords.co.uk/festivals/ways-with-words-festival-of-words-and-ideas-at-dartington-hall-24/events/dickens–co-1793
In February 1835, Charles Dickens had a party for his 23rd birthday. Catherine Hogarth, the daughter of his magazine editor, was one of the guests. “Mr Dickens improves greatly on acquaintance,” she wrote to her cousin after the party. The improvement must have been dramatic: Catherine soon agreed to marry him. Their wedding took place … Read more
I’m really looking forward to returning to the Hexham Book Festival. I’ll be speaking about my latest book, Charles Dickens and his Circle on the evening of Tues 3 May. More details here: http://hexhambookfestival.co.uk/programme/lucinda-hawksley-charles-dickens-and-his-circle/
If you’re in Philadelphia this Saturday (30 April), apply now for free tickets to my author talk on Queen Victoria’s Mysterious Daughter at the Free Library (which is also renowned as the home of Grip, Charles Dickens’s pet raven, who the author had stuffed after his sad demise). https://libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/event/57176 Books will be being sold afterwards … Read more
Thank you to everyone at the Hudson Library and Historical Centre for a great evening on Tuesday – and thanks as well to the Learned Owl bookshop, for supporting the event and selling books.
I was thrilled to be invited onto the Robert Elms Show on BBC London radio as a Listed Londoner, the interview is online here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03lslkh
Today I was interviewed by the lovely Lynn Parsons for BBC Berkshire, about my latest book, Charles Dickens and his Circle (my segment starts at 2.08). http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03lx806
On my first visit to Italy I was 13. It was on a Schools Abroad trip, on which we spent a night in the port of Brindisi, where I and my fellow schoolmates were sexually harassed by scary sailors, made sick by the stink of diesel and where nothing could have been further from the … Read more
On Weds 21 March, I’ll be giving a talk on “Strong Women” (inspired by the research for my book March, Women, March) at the Maggie’s Cancer Centre at Charing Cross Hospital, London W6. Tickets and more information on how you can support Maggie’s can be found here: https://www.maggiescentres.org/how-you-can-help/take-part/all-events/celebration-women-support-maggies/ All proceeds from the evening are going … Read more