Past Events
The Start of Modern Travel Writing
Join celebrated author, broadcaster, lecturer and award-winning travel writer Lucinda Hawksley as she explores the travel writing of her great, great, great Grandfather Charles Dickens, discovering his many fascinating journeys overseas through her latest book Dickens and Travel (2022).
This event will be followed by a book signing with the author, with the opportunity to purchase Dickens and Travel.
This February, join Dickens’s great-great-great granddaughter, Lucinda Hawksley, for a virtual talk on her new book, Dickens and Travel. Lucinda will be sharing some fascinating insights from her research, including Dickens’s scandalous comments regarding which women were the most ‘kissable,’ and his furious condemnation of the injustices he encountered. We’ll be exploring how Dickens travelled, looking at the revolutionary changes in transport which took place during Dickens’s lifetime. We’ll examine the impact of travel upon his family, and his difficulties in maintaining a private life while under the glare of global scrutiny. Above all, Lucinda examines the way in which the wider world helped to shape this most quintessentially British writer.