Past Events
Grab a cuppa and get to know actress, director and writer, Anni Domingo. Anni will be in conversation with author, Lucinda Hawksley, to discuss her work and career and offer a glimpse into her creative routine.
Programme
- Welcome, introductions and housekeeping from Lucinda Hawksley (2 mins)
- Introduction to Anni Domingo and a glimpse into her routine (15-25 mins)
- Q&A with audience (10-15 mins)
- Summary and closing comments (3 mins)
- This event will be moderated by Sophia A Jackson – Head of Events, SoA
In July and August, Lucinda will be guest lecturing on Explora I cruise ship. Her talk subjects will include the 18th-century travel writer Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Lord Byron’s travels in Europe, and Charles Dickens’s year in Italy.
Fellow panelists: Professor Louise Howard, Professor Lillian Nayder.
Lucinda’s talk came from her research for two of her books, her biography of Kate Perugini (née Katey Dickens) and March, Women, March: Voices from the Women’s Movement.
Special thanks to hosts Dr Ta-Wei Guu and Dr Cindy Sughrue (Director of the Charles Dickens Museum).
Speaker at a unique literary festival held in characterful venues in the picturesque Chiltern villages of Chalfont St. Giles and Jordans.
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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
From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures, and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Travel, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by him.
Although Dickens is usually perceived as a London author, in the 1840s he whisked his family away to live in Italy for year, and spent several months in Switzerland. Some years later he took up residence in Paris and Boulogne (where he lived in secret with his lover). In addition to traveling widely in Europe, he also toured America twice, performed onstage in Canada and, before his untimely death, was planning a tour of Australia.
Dickens and Travel enters into the world of the Victorian traveller and looks at how Charles Dickens’s journeys influenced his writing and enriched his life.
Lucinda Hawksley is a biographer, art historian and broadcaster, and a great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Her topic will be ‘Charlie & Wilkie Collins and their relationship to the Dickens Family‘.
Please join us in St Dunstan’s church hall in Canterbury if you can, or request the Zoom link by email: [email protected]
Image credit: Wilkie Collins by Rudolf Lehmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Success After Stroke biennial fundraising event. The BrushStroke art exhibition held at St. Peter’s Church, Market Hill, Sudbury.
Event presented by Artistic Fields.
Talking with fellow author Victoria Panton-Bacon. Tickets are on sale now.
New venue for this event. Please book early to avoid disappointment.
