Dickens and Italy

Date: 9 May 2024
Time: 6:30 - 7:30pm
Location: The Tolmen Centre, Constantine, Cornwall

Constantine Literary Pod welcomes

In 1844, Charles Dickens took his wife and young family to Italy for a year. Author, historian and broadcaster Lucinda Hawksley will speak about their year in which Dickens recovered from depression, wrote his second Christmas novella and travelled the country researching his travelogue Pictures from Italy. Dickens great, great, great granddaughter will speak about the family’s extraordinary year which also helped inspire her own book Dickens and Travel.

Wine, cheese and biscuits, available from 18:30.

Venue Opens: 18:00
Event Starts: 19:30

Tickets £7