Lucinda Hawksley is a biographer, lecturer, author, travel writer and broadcaster. Studying Education and Literature, Lucinda embarked on a career as a book editor after graduating. She has written over 15 books, many of which center around the history and life of Charles Dickens, her great, great, great grandfather. Her other books explore women in history from the 19th and early 20th centuries. For the last decade she has been a Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London and in 2017 she was appointed to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is also an art historian, and in 2002 organised an exhibition of the paintings of her relative Kate Dickens-Perugini.