Lucinda hawksley biography of george

  • Lucinda began her career as a book editor and moved into writing and editing for magazines and online media, during which time she won the Ed Lacy travel.
  • Lucinda Hawksley encountered this irresistible lure when she began research on a complete artistic biography of Queen Victoria's sixth child.
  • In Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter, Lucinda Hawksley acts as a historical detective, as well as a skilled biographer, to discover what.

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    Katey: The Life And Loves Of Dickens's Artist Daughter

    October 5,
    It took me a while to get into this book, as the opening pages or so are largely a potted biography of Dickens, with occasional mentions of his young daughter, and don't add all that much to the books on him I've read before. However, the biography really comes into its own when the author gets on to Katey's adult life, discussing her work as an artist and her two marriages, to fellow-artists Charles Collins and Carlo Perugini, as well as her many friendships with writers and artists. She lived to be 89 and had an intense, flirtatious correspondence with George Bernard Shaw for many years - something which came as a surprise to me.

    Lucinda Hawksley has a very readable, flowing style of writing (it's in her blood) and, as a descendant of Dickens, is able to add in quite a bit of information from the family. I especially liked the fact that she includes many long extracts from Katey's chatty, witty letters, whe
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    Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise
    by Lucinda Hawksley

    It's been quite a while since I read a book that plunged me into the depths of desperate obsession; of hours of internet research and buying obscure documentaries on the subject; of having no wish in the world except to know every tiny detail of the subject. This was one of those books. Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter is gripping, spell-binding, magnificent. Princess Louise is fascinating; to use Victorian slang she would have understood in her day, she was a bricky basket of oranges, quite a proper bit of frock, and the absolute jammiest bit of jam.

    Little has been known in the past about Louise, Queen Victoria's sixth child and fourth daughter, or her remarkable long life in the years between and Intriguingly, and in contrast to all her other siblings, Louise's files in the Royal Archives are locked, and many other sources about her are closed to scholars. In Queen Victoria

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    Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter

    October 5,
    It took me a while to get into this book, as the opening pages or so are largely a potted biography of Dickens, with sporadisk mentions of his ung daughter, and don't add all that much to the books on him I've read before. However, the biography really comes into its own when the author gets on to Katey's adult life, discussing her work as an artist and her two marriages, to fellow-artists Charles Collins and Carlo Perugini, as well as her many friendships with writers and artists. She lived to be 89 and had an intense, flirtatious correspondence with George Bernard Shaw for many years - something which came as a surprise to me.

    Lucinda Hawksley has a very readable, flowing style of writing (it's in her blood) and, as a descendant of Dickens, fryst vatten able to add in quite a bit of information from the family. I especially liked the fact that she includes many long extracts from Katey's chatty, witty letters, whe