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Charles Dickens' Great-Great-Great Granddaughter, Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, to Arrive in Galveston Tuesday, November 30, in Preparation for Weekend Dickens Festival
Lucinda Dickens Hawksley is a biographer, art historian, voice-over artist, public speaker and award-winning travel writer. She is the author or co-author of more than 20 books, including a retelling of "A Tale of Two Cities" for children. Hawksley arrives in Galveston on Tuesday, November 30, in preparation for her role as Galveston Historical Foundation’s guest of honor at its 37th annual Dickens on The Strand Victorian Holiday Festival. She will make media appearances and visit school children and hospital patients in Galveston during the days leading up to her appearances at the Dickens Festival this weekend.
Hawksley is the great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, descended from his son Sir Henry Fielding Dickens (the eighth child in the family). She is an expert on Dickens family life and a patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London. To learn more about Hawksley and her literary works, visit her website at www.lucindahawksley.com.
Hawksley will offer three lectures and seven book signings while she is in Galveston.
She will be the guest of honor at the Dickens Champagne Reception, Thursday, December 2 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the new Menard Hall at 33rd and Avenue O. Tickets, at $30 each, must be purchased in advance and are available online at dickensonthestrand.org. The evening will include a lecture by Hawksley on the life of Charles Dickens. She will also sign books at the event; copies of her books along with books by Charles Dickens will be available for sale.
She will lecture on the impact of “A Christmas Carol” on subsequent Christmas traditions on both Friday and Saturday evenings as the guest of honor at Dinner with Dickens, a traditional five-course English dinner. The dinners will take place at Ashton Villa, 2628 Broadway, on
Friday, December 3 at 7 p.m. and on Saturday, December 4 at 8 p.m. After her lecture, to be delivered during dessert, she will be available to sign books. Dinner tickets, at $65 each, must be purchased in advance and are available at dickensonthestrand.org.
Hawksley will also be available to sign books at each of the English Country Breakfasts, scheduled for Saturday, December 4 and Sunday, December 5 at 9 a.m. at Garten Verein Pavilion, 2704 Avenue O. Breakfast tickets, at $25 each, must be purchased in advance and are available at dickensonthstrand.org.
She will also sign books for festival ticket holders at the Tremont House Hotel from noon to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4, and from 3 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5.
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