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Date/Time
Date(s) - Tuesday, October 29, 2019
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location
Northfield Public Library

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Charles Dickens lives on in the writing of his great great great granddaughter, Lucinda Hawksley! Lucinda, a British biographer, author, lecturer and award winning travel writer will speak at the Northfield Public Library on Tuesday, October 29, 5:00 – 6:30 pm.

Dickens is usually described as a “London author,” but throughout his relatively short life he travelled around the world in a manner highly unusual for his time, living in Italy, Boulogne, and Paris, acting onstage in Montreal, and campaigning against slavery in America.

Hawksley will talk about his literary adventures overseas. Her book, Charles Dickens and Travel, will be published in 2020. She has written a number of other books, including Dicken’s Artistic Daughter, Katey; Dickens and Christmas; The Writer Abroad; Dickens and His Circle; Charles Dickens: A Bicenttenary Celebration, 1812-2012.

The talk is free and open to the public.