Dickens on Dickens: How A Christmas Carol Became a Classic
An Evening with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
November 21, 2024
Every holiday season, Ford’s Theatre brings Charles Dickens’s beloved tale A Christmas Carol to life on stage. Renowned for his vivid portrayals of London’s impoverished and compelling redemption of its protagonist, Ebeneezer Scrooge, Dickens’s personal experiences shaped a story with timeless resonance. This season, join us for a special online discussion with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, Dickens’s great-great-great-granddaughter and an accomplished author herself. Discover fascinating insights into the life, work, and enduring legacy of Charles Dickens from a unique family perspective.
A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre runs November 21 – December 31, 2024. For more information and to purchase ticket, visit A Christmas Carol – 2024 – Ford’s Theatre (fords.org)
Lucinda Dickens 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. Her many TV credits include Miriam’s Dickensian Christmas, a show she created with the Dickens-loving actress Miriam argolyes, A Very Country Christmas, Mrs. Dickens’s Family Christmas and Charles Dickens and the Invention of Christmas. She has written three biographies of female artists: Kate Perugini (née Dickens), Princess Louise and Lizzie Siddal. Her other books include, 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) among others. Her latest books are Victorian Christmas (2024) and Dickens and Travel (2022).
Lucinda is a great great great granddaughter of Charles and Catherine Dickens, and a Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London. She was recently sworn in as President of the International Dickens Fellowship.