Lucinda will be at the Charles Dickens Museum to speak about Dickens’s daughter, Mamie Dickens. Mamie was the second of Charles and Catherine Dickens’s children. Always the dutiful daughter, her nickname within the family was “mild Gloster”. When her parents separated, Mamie became her father’s housekeeper and something of a local celebrity in Kent. After Dickens’s death, however, everything changed. Mamie left her family, moved to Manchester and lived a scandalous new life, which is still shrouded in secrecy. In this talk, her great-great-great granddaughter Lucinda Hawksley will look at the life of the lesser-known Dickens daughter.
There will be the opportunity for a short Q+A following the talk.