Princess Louise in America
My biography of the sculptor Princess Louise is being published in North America this December, by St Martin’s Press in New York City: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-05932-1 I will be in NYC for a couple of days in December, so please get in touch if you would like to arrange an interview.
March, Women, March at Conrad St James
Thank you to the staff of Conrad St James hotel in London for a perfect purple, white & green evening. I spoke about March, Women, March and the film Suffragette with Dr Helen Pankhurst (great granddaughter of Emmeline and Richard Pankhurst and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst), in the hotel’s aptly named Emmeline room. The ticket … Read more
The Victorian Treasury
My latest book The Victorian Treasury is coming out with Carlton Books on 8 October and is available now to pre-order: http://prionbooks.co.uk/books/products/a-victorian-treasury-out-08-slash-10-slash-2015
Lizzie Siddal talk in London
On 16 September I’m doing a talk on Lizzie Siddal, for the UK Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, at the Cafe Royal in Piccadilly, London, tickets are available here: http://www.ukfriendsofnmwa.org/event/salon-series-lucinda-hawksley-on-women-pre-raphaelites/
The mysterious tale of Charles Dickens’s raven
In 2012, the Tower of London welcomed two new inhabitants: a pair of ravens named Jubilee and Grip. Their arrival celebrated the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s birth. This Grip was the third of the Tower ravens to be named after the novelist’s own pet bird. One of his predecessors was … Read more
Victoria and Albert: How a royal love changed culture
When Queen Victoria inherited the British throne just a few weeks after her 18th birthday, there was immediate speculation about who she would marry. Few had foreseen that this little-known princess would become their monarch. But when the country found itself with a young queen after so many dissolute Hanoverian kings, it seemed that exciting … Read more
Dickens at the Keats-Shelley House
On 28 April I will be talking about Charles Dickens’s travels in Italy at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome. Many people aren’t aware that Dickens and his family lived in Italy for a year, residing in Genoa, and that he travelled widely around the country researching his second travelogue, Pictures from Italy. http://www.keats-shelley.co.uk/events/events
John Singer Sargent talk in Bristol
At 7pm on 11 February, I’ll be talking about John Singer Sargent at Bristol Art Gallery. Tickets are just ?ú3. More info here: http://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/bristol-museum-and-art-gallery/whats-on/john-singer-sargent-life-lived-canvas/