Southwold Arts Festival ~ Lucinda Dickens Hawksley - Dickens and Travel

Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and cultures and longed to see the world. Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by the Victorian author – who is also her great great great grandfather.

“Hawksley explores the novelist’s almost compulsive fascination with the need to be elsewhere.” Grace Moore, TLS

“Hawksley provides readers with a wealth of details and anecdotes that recreate the spirit and atmosphere of these visits… We get a feel of the journey through Dickens’s own words.” Natalie Vanfasse, Dickens Quarterly