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In this video Professor Jon Mee talks to Lucinda Hawksley about Dickens' early life and the effect it had on his own writing.
Despite being the great-great-great granddaughter of Charles and Catherine Dickens, Lucinda Hawksley didn’t read her ancestor’s novels until she was in her late teens.
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It was then that she “really realised quite how important he is and how much he’s revered today,” she tells Professor Jon Mee.
Now an author, Hawksley's first biography of a Dickens family member was of the author’s maverick daughter Katey (Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens’s Artist Daughter).
It’s here that being a family member helped with writing about her forebears. “You just feel that you know and understand them because you recognise their personality traits... The interesting thing is having known people who knew not of Dickens, because he died in 1870, but his children, and hearing stories about them is always really fascinati