Ms Lucinda Hawksley

Lucinda Hawksley is the author of more than 20 books, including biographies of the artists Lizzie Siddal (André Deutsche, 2004), Princess Louise (Penguin, 2013) and Kate Perugini (Pen & Sword, 2018). Her other titles include Elizabeth Revealed (Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers, 2019), Dickens and Christmas (Pen & Sword, 2017), The Writer Abroad (British Library, 2017), Charles Dickens and his Circle (National Portrait Gallery, 2016), Bitten by Witch Fever (Thames & Hudson, 2016), March, Women, March: Voices of the Women’s Movement (André Deutsch, 2013), Letters of Great Women (Welbeck, 2020), Dickens and Travel (Pen & Sword, 2022) and Victorian Christmas (W.W.Norton, 2024). She is a lecturer for the National Portrait Gallery, the Arvon Foundation and IES London; as well as being patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London and of the De Morgan Foundation. Lucinda is a former Fellow of the Newberry Library in Chicago and a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow. She is currently working on her first novel.