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Brontë Lounge: A Victorian Christmas with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
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Church Street, Haworth, West Yorkshire, BD22 8DR
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Author Lucinda Hawksley talks about Victorian Christmases and how her ancestor Charles Dickens shaped festive traditions.
The Brontë Lounge welcomes author and historian Lucinda Hawksley, a great great great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, for an evening talk on Victorian Christmas traditions. Drawing on her books Victorian Christmas and Dickens and Christmas, she will share stories about how her ancestor helped shape the way the festive season is still celebrated today. Hawksley lectures on literature and art history and teaches Life Writing at the University of Cambridge.
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