A sneak preview of my next book…
http://www.npg.org.uk/business/publications/charles-dickens-and-his-circle.php
Malton Dickens festival – with Miriam Margolyes
I’m thrilled to be joining fellow Dickensians Miriam Margolyes (who needs no introduction!) and Professor Michael Slater at the new Dickens & Christmas festival in Malton, Yorkshire, this December. I’ll be speaking at the Talbot Hotel on the afternoon of Saturday 19 December. Tickets are available now. http://m.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/13847435.Harry_Potter_star_headlines_new_Dickens_festival/
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/
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/