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Katey

The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter

By: Lucinda Hawksley

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Katey

The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter

By: Lucinda Hawksley

Katey Dickens was a nineteenth-century artist and socialite, and the beautiful daughter of Charles Dickens. In this illuminating biography, Lucinda Hawksley, herself Dickens's great-great-great-granddaughter, recreates the life of an extraordinarily determined girl who defied Victorian convention to live and love as an independent woman. Blessed with a privileged upbringing in an family that moved between London, France, Switzerland and Italy, Katey pursued her love of painting, acted in her father's plays, modelled for John Everett Millais and, as the daughter of the most famous writer of the time, enjoyed a high profile in Victorian society. Yet she refused to be eclipsed by her father and fought to establish herself as an artist in her own right. Family life in the Dickens household was turbulent and the unhappy atmosphere that followed the eventual breakdown of her parents' marriage drove Katey to marry young. Her first husband was the chronically ailing Charlie Collins, brother of the famous author Wilkie Collins, and theirs was a sexless but otherwise companionable union, while Katey threw herself into a passionate and very un-Victorian affair with celebrated artist Val Prinsep. After Charlie's untimely demise, the widowed Katey married the handsome Italian artist Carlo Perugini, with whom she had fallen deeply in love. Despite the happiness she finally found in her second marriage, Katey often suffered from deep depression, particularly following the death of her beloved father and of her baby. But she remained active, pursuing her career as a painter, championing Charles Dickens's works, and befriending such eminent figures as J. M. Barrie and George Bernard Shaw. Katey Perugini lived to be almost ninety and her artistic prestige, which flourished during her lifetime, still persists to this day. Author of the acclaimed LIZZIE SIDDAL: THE TRAGEDY OF A PRE-RAPHAELITE SUPERMODEL, Linda Hawksley has delved deep into her own family history to research this fascinating new biography, which intimately remembers the life of a supremely independent Victorian woman.

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Transworld Pub

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0552151513

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9780552151511

Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter

A Biography of Princess Louise

By: Lucinda Hawksley

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Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter

A Biography of Princess Louise

By: Lucinda Hawksley

The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating woman, modern before her time, whose story has been shielded for years from public view. Louise was a sculptor and painter, friend to the Pre-Raphaelites and a keen member of the Aesthetic movement. The most feisty of the Victorian princesses, she kicked against her mother's controlling nature and remained fiercely loyal to her brothers-especially the sickly Leopold and the much-maligned Bertie. She sought out other unconventional women, including Josephine Butler and George Eliot, and campaigned for education and health reform and for the rights of women. She battled with her indomitable mother for permission to practice the "masculine" art of sculpture and go to art college-and in doing so became the first British princess to attend a public school. The rumors of Louise's colorful love life persist even today, with hints of love affairs dating as far back as her teenage years, and notable scandals included entanglements with her sculpting tutor Joseph Edgar Boehm and possibly even her sister Princess Beatrice's handsome husband, Liko. True to rebellious form, she refused all royal suitors and became the first member of the royal family, since the sixteenth century, to marry a commoner. She moved with him to Canada when he was appointed Governor-General. Spirited and lively, Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter is richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals, and secrets, and is a vivid portrait of a princess desperate to escape her inheritance.

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385

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Macmillan

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1466863900

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9781466863903

Dickens and Travel

The Start of Modern Travel Writing

By: Lucinda Hawksley

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Dickens and Travel

The Start of Modern Travel Writing

By: Lucinda Hawksley

From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures, and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Travel, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by the author – who is also her great great great grandfather. Although Dickens is usually perceived as a London author, in the 1840s he whisked his family away to live in Italy for year, and spent several months in Switzerland. Some years later he took up residence in Paris and Boulogne (where he lived in secret with his lover). In addition to travelling widely in Europe, he also toured America twice, performed onstage in Canada and, before his untimely death, was planning a tour of Australia. Dickens and Travel enters into the world of the Victorian traveller and looks at how Charles Dickens’s journeys influenced his writing and enriched his life.

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Pen and Sword History

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1526735660

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9781526735669

Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter

A Biography of Princess Louise

By: Lucinda Hawksley

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A Biography of Princess Louise

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Dickens's Artistic Daughter Katey

Her Life, Loves & Impact

By: Lucinda Hawksley

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Her Life, Loves & Impact

By: Lucinda Hawksley

A biography of a Victorian-era woman who grew up as the daughter of novelist Charles Dickens—and found a creative career of her own. Katey Dickens was born into a house of turbulent celebrity and grew up surrounded by fascinating, famous, and infamous people. From a very young age, she knew her vocation was to be an artist. Lucinda Hawksley charts the life of a celebrated portrait painter who redefines our preconceptions about Victorian women. Living to be almost ninety, Katey survived an unconventional marriage, love affairs, heartbreak, depression, and the challenges of being a female artist in a male-dominated era. Compelling and illuminating, this biography of Katey Dickens tells the story of a spirited woman who found fame at the center of the first celebrity phenomenon; it also uncovers the reality of what it was like to be a child of Charles and Catherine Dickens.

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Grub Street Publishers

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1526712326

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9781526712325

March, Women, March

By: Lucinda Hawksley

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March, Women, March

By: Lucinda Hawksley

A wonderful, inspiring story told with scholarship, passion and wit' – Miriam Margolyes 'A must-read' – Independent on Sunday With an introduction by Dr Helen Pankhurst. An illuminating and riveting exploration of the women's movement in Britain, and the extraordinary women behind it. From the passing of the Marriage and Divorce Act in 1857 to all women attaining the vote in 1928, the struggle for suffrage in the United Kingdom was to be fought using the weapons of intellect, searing rhetoric, and violence in the streets. Ordinary women rose up to defy the roles prescribed by their society to become heroes in the battle for equality. Using anecdotes and accounts by both famous and hitherto lesser-known suffragettes and suffragists, March, Women, March explores how the voices of women came to be heard throughout the land in the pursuit of equal voting rights for all women. Lucinda Hawksley brings the main protagonists of the women's movement to life, sharing diary extracts and letters that show the true voices of these women, while their portrayals in literature and art – as well as the media reports of the day – show just how much of an impact these trailblazers made. 'An accessible and engaging guide to the original women's movement' – Daily Telegraph

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Hachette UK

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1787398528

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9781787398528

Essential History of Art

By: Lucinda Hawksley

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Essential History of Art

By: Lucinda Hawksley

A survey of Western art from antiquity to today, with full-color reproductions and commentaries on representative works by over 150 artists.

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0752542303

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9780752542300

Dickens's Artistic Daughter Katey

Her Life, Loves & Impact

By: Lucinda Hawksley

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Her Life, Loves & Impact

By: Lucinda Hawksley

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Victorian Christmas: Traditional Recipes, Decorations, Activities, and Carols

By: Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

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Victorian Christmas: Traditional Recipes, Decorations, Activities, and Carols

By: Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

Celebrate the holiday like a Victorian with authentic dishes and customs beloved by all, from the working classes to the royal family. Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, a descendant of Charles Dickens, reveals the fascinating tale of Christmas traditions during Queen Victoria’s reign. In 1843, while Dickens was inventing the Christmas ghost story, a London civil servant commissioned the first Christmas card and Windsor Castle displayed artificial Christmas trees and served turkeys for Christmas dinner. During the next five years, the first recipe for Christmas pudding appeared, Christmas crackers debuted, and a London newspaper showcased Christmas trees to the world. Hawksley explores these customs and more so you can experience the season authentically to period. Feast on Roast Goose with Sage and Onion Stuffing, Brussels Sprouts on Buttered Toast, and Christmas Cake while sipping a Cratchit Christmas Twist or Smoking Bishop Punch. Craft Golden Walnuts, Kissing Bunches, and Pomanders. Play board games such as Balderdash and Pachisi or parlor games including Charades and Snapdragon. Take a Christmas swim or sing “Christmastide” by Christina Rossetti. Meticulously researched, this festive collection will make your yuletide merry.

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The Countryman Press

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168268864X

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9781682688649

When Art Really Works

By: Andy Pankhurst,Lucinda Hawksley

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When Art Really Works

By: Andy Pankhurst,Lucinda Hawksley

What are the qualities that make an artwork great? A recognized painter Andy Pankhurst and art historian Lucinda Hawksley offer compelling answers to this question as they examine 80 historically important paintings and sculptures. All are works of art that stand out from the ordinary because of their originality, their ability to convey powerful emotions, their technical brilliance--distinctive qualities that unmistakably touch them with intimations of immortality. Discussions focus on examples from across the millennia, and include-- The Lascaux cave paintings (circa. 15,000 B.C) Italian Renaissance masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Paintings that demonstrate revolutionary use of color by J.M.W. Turner Impressionist masterworks by Monet and Degas The action painting of Jackson Pollock The Pop Art of Andy Warhol, and many other memorable artists and their works The book is filled with color illustrations

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1742669654

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9781742669656

Dickens and Christmas

By: Lucinda Hawksley

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Dickens and Christmas

By: Lucinda Hawksley

A direct descendant of Charles Dickens delves into the many merry ways in which the author of A Christmas Carol celebrated & influenced the holiday. Dickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today—and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. Charles Dickens was born in an age of great social change. He survived childhood poverty to become the most adored and influential man of his time. Throughout his life, he campaigned tirelessly for better social conditions, including by his most famous work, A Christmas Carol. He wrote this novella specifically “to strike a sledgehammer blow on behalf of the poor man’s child,” and it began the Victorian’s obsession with Christmas. This new book, written by one of his direct descendants, explores not only Dickens’s most famous work, but also his all-too-often overlooked other Christmas novellas. It takes the readers through the seasonal short stories he wrote, for both adults and children, includes much-loved festive excerpts from his novels, uses contemporary newspaper clippings, and looks at Christmas writings by Dickens’s contemporaries. To give an even more personal insight, readers can discover how the Dickens family itself celebrated Christmas, through the eyes of Dickens’s unfinished autobiography, family letters, and his children’s memoirs. Dickens and Christmas also explores the ways in which his works have gone on to influence how the festive season is celebrated around the globe. “Brilliant . . . a very readable book, a slice of social history involving a man who, more than anyone, encapsulates Christmas in literature.”—Books Monthly

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Pen and Sword

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1526712288

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9781526712288

PreRaphaelites

By: Lucinda Hawksley,Parragon Publishing

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PreRaphaelites

By: Lucinda Hawksley,Parragon Publishing

Looks in detail at all aspects of the artists work. With 120 of their paintings, they show the diversity of this group of artists.

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256

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Parragon Publishing

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0752542281

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9780752542287

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens,Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

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A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens,Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

A retelling of Dickens' classic story of the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

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144

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Usborne Books

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1580865151

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9781580865159

Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782

By: Lucinda Lee Orr

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Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782

By: Lucinda Lee Orr

[...]Mortals, Mr. Pinkard and Mr. Washington, who seized me and kissed me a dozen times in spite of all the resistance I could make. They really think, now they are married, they are prevaliged to do any thing. October 12.I am going to tell you a little piece of a secret; but you must never mention it. Nancy had an admirer lately-who do you think it is? No other than Mr. Newton. He got his discard yesterday. It is in the evening. Nancy and myself have been to visit our little garden [you have frequently heard me speak of it]. We[...]".

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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1505310644

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Book's by Lucinda Hawksley

Katey

Katey

Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter

Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter

Dickens and Travel

Dickens and Travel

Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter

Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter

Dickens's Artistic Daughter Katey

Dickens's Artistic Daughter Katey

March, Women, March

March, Women, March

Essential History of Art

Essential History of Art

Dickens's Artistic Daughter Katey

Dickens's Artistic Daughter Katey

Victorian Christmas: Traditional Recipes, Decorations, Activities, and Carols

Victorian Christmas: Traditional Recipes, Decorations, Activities, and Carols

When Art Really Works

When Art Really Works

Dickens and Christmas

Dickens and Christmas

PreRaphaelites

PreRaphaelites

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782

Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782

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