Lucinda Hawksley

Lucinda Hawksley is an author, broadcaster, lecturer, presenter and award-winning travel writer, who has worked as an interviewee, consultant and presenter on TV and radio shows worldwide. Her latest book is Dickens and Travel (2022), which explores the journeys made by her great great great grandfather, Charles Dickens, alongside his travel writing. Lucinda is an art historian and she has also written three biographies of female artists: Kate Perugini (née Dickens), Princess Louise and Lizzie Siddal. Her other books include, Letters of Great Women (2021), Elizabeth Revealed (2018), Dickens and Christmas (2017), The Writer Abroad (2017), Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper and Arsenic in the Victorian Home (2016), Charles Dickens and his Circle (2016), Moustaches, Whiskers & Beards (Facial Hair in Art) (2014), and March, Women, March: Voices of the Women’s Movement (2013). She is a Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London and of the De Morgan Foundation. She is a presenter on two shows for the online platform Goldster.co.uk, for which she interviews fellow authors, as well as a presenter on The Goldster Podcast.