Lucinda Hawksley

Lucinda Hawksley is a British biographer, author and lecturer. She is the daughter of Henry Dickens Hawksley and Susan Jane, and the great-great-great-granddaughter of Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. Hawksley is an award-winning travel writer.

Hawksley studied literature and education before starting her career as a book editor. She took an MA in Literature and the History of Art and organised and curated an exhibition of the paintings of her relative Kate Dickens-Perugini in 2002 at the Charles Dickens Museum in London. She is an author, travel writer, lecturer and broadcaster. She has appeared on TV and radio programmes around the world, including India, Iran, Australia, the USA and New Zealand.

Her books include biographies, social histories, art history and travel writing: Bitten by Witch Fever, Thames & Hudson, 2016 Charles Dickens and his Circle, NPG, 2016 A London Treasury, Andre Deutsch, 2015 Queen Victoria’s Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise, Thomas Dunne (NYC) 2015 A Victorian Treasury, Andre Deutsch, 2015 Moustaches, Whiskers & Beards, NPG, 2014 The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria’s Rebellious Daughter, Chatto, 2013 March, Women, March: Voices of the Women’s Movement, Andre Deutsch, 2013 What Makes Great Art, Quintessence, 2012 (co-authored with artist Andy Pankhurst) Charles Dickens, Andre Deutsch, 2011 50 British Artists You Should Know, Prestel, 2011 Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens’s Artist Daughter, Doubleday, 2006 Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel, Andre Deutsch, 2004 A Tale of Two Cities, retold for children, Usborne, 2002 Essential Pre-Raphaelites, Dempsey Parr, 1999 London, Siena, 1999

Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel was Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. Her co-authored works include the 19th and early 20th-century sections of 'The Essential History of Art' (2000) and 'An Encyclopedia of British History' (2001); 501 Great Artists, (Quintet Publishing, 2008); 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die (Quintet Publishing, 2006); Eyewitness Art (Dorling Kindersley, 2006); Europe 2006 (Bradmans Business Travel Guides, 2005), The History of the Bra (Studio Cactus, 2004); Europe 2005 (Bradmans Business Travel Guides, 2004); An Encyclopaedia of British History (Star Fire, 2001); Essential History of Art (Dempsey Parr, 2000); Essential van Gogh (Dempsey Parr, 2000) and Essential Michelangelo (Dempsey Parr, 2000). Hawksley's 'Essential Pre-Raphaelites' (1999) has become a best seller and led to an invitation to lecture on 'Pre-Raphaelite Artists: The Connection Between Their Lives and Work' at the Oxford Union. As a speaker and lecturer she has spoken at the International Charles Dickens Conference, the Newberry Library in Chicago, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the University of Genoa, the Kensington Hilton in London, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge; the Chicago Dickens Holiday Festival, the Dickens on the Strand festival in Galveston, Texas; Washington & Lee University, VA; Santa Fe College, FL; Arkansas State University; Southwestern University, TX; the University of Kolkata; the British Council in India; and the Free Libraryin Philadelphia, PA; as well as many other art galleries, universities and libraries around the world.

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