Listen again to BBC Radio London Interview on the Eddie Nestor Show
Lucinda’s interview about the life of Charles Dickens on the 100th birthday of the Dickens Museum. Interview starts at approx. 1 hr 42 mins.
A day with the Dickens Dynasty at the Charles Dickens Museum
Monday 9 June 2025 was no ordinary Monday. In the heart of Bloomsbury, at 48 Doughty Street – the only surviving London home of Charles …
How Christmas became a publishing sensation
Since its publication on 19 December 1843, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens has never been out of print. It was an astonishing and instant success, selling …
Listen to Lizzie Siddal on BBC Radio 4 Extra
Struck by her good looks and her pale copper hair, the Pre-Raphaelite painters made Lizzie Siddal one of the best known faces of the Victorian …
President of the International Dickens Fellowship
On 24 August Lucinda will be sworn in as President of the International Dickens Fellowship. She will be taking over from the brilliant Professor Cathy Waters. …
A Tantalising Talk with Lucinda Hawksley and Humphrey Hawksley
We recently had the delight of hosting a rousing talk with award-winning authors Lucinda Hawskley and Humphrey Hawksley at Riverstone Kensington. This was the latest …
Why it’s time to rescue Charlie Collins from his brother Wilkie’s shadow
This week’s bicentenary of the birth of Wilkie Collins – author of The Moonstone (1868) and The Woman in White, who regularly collaborated on plays and stories …
Charles Dickens’ great-great-great-granddaughter on why Texans do the author best at Christmas
What’s the first location that springs to mind when thinking of setting up a Charles Dickens festival? It’s unlikely to be a Texan island. But …