Join author Lucinda Hawksley at the Freud Museum for a talk about her great great great grandfather, Charles Dickens.
In June 1882, Sigmund Freud gave a copy of David Copperfield, his favourite Dickens novel, to Martha Bernays. This copy — one of the 1,600 volumes which were brought from Vienna to London in 1938 when the Freud family fled Nazi persecution — remains in Freud’s library at the Museum today. In this special event, Lucinda Hawksley will explore what was happening in Dickens’s life at the time of working on David Copperfield and the inspirations behind what is widely considered to be his most autobiographical novel.
SPEAKER
Lucinda Hawksley is an author, broadcaster, lecturer, and award-winning travel writer, who has worked as an interviewee, consultant and presenter on TV and radio shows worldwide. She has written three biographies of female artists: Kate Perugini (née Dickens), Princess Louise, and Lizzie Siddal. Her other books include Victorian Christmas (2024), Dickens and Travel (2022), Letters of Great Women (2021), Elizabeth Revealed (2018), Dickens and Christmas (2017), The Writer Abroad (2017), Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper and Arsenic in the Victorian Home (2016), Charles Dickens and his Circle (2016), Moustaches, Whiskers & Beards (2014), and March, Women, March: Voices of the Women’s Movement (2013). Lucinda lectures internationally on literature and art history and teaches Life Writing for the University of Cambridge.
She is a great great great granddaughter of Charles and Catherine Dickens, a Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London, and in 2024 became the President of the International Dickens Fellowship.
Complement your visit to the Freud Museum with one of our weekly tours or talks led by staff, volunteers and guest speakers.
The talks are free with your admission ticket. Book your admission ticket now!
The event will be held on the first floor of the Museum during regular opening hours. Unfortunately the Freud Museum does not have step-free access at this time. Advance booking is highly recommended as capacity is limited.
Concessions/Members/Patrons: Please show proof of eligibility/membership card on arrival.
