Lucinda Hawksley

Dickens's Artistic Daughter Katey (eBook, ePUB)

Her Life, Loves & Impact

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword History
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526712325
• Artikelnr.: 54788757

Autorenporträt

Lucinda Hawksley is an author, broadcaster and public speaker. She has written more than twenty books, including critically acclaimed biographies, art history, social history, the history of London and travel writing. This is her third book about her great great great grandfather, Charles Dickens. Lucinda has appeared on television and radio programmes around the globe. She is a Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London.