Books by Lucinda Hawksley and Complete Book Reviews
Lucinda Hawksley, Author Walker & Company $24.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1550-0
This book traces the life of Lizzie Siddal, who, from her humble beginnings as a shop girl, became a central figure of the Pre-Raphaelite movement by the time she died at 32 from a self-inflicted overdose of opiates. Today, readers are used to...
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Lucinda Hawksley. Globe Pequot/Lyons, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7627-8521-6
In this updated edition of the British Katey: the life and Loves of Dickens' Artist Daughter, Hawksley, the several times granddaughter of Dickens, attempts to do justice to the life of his daughter, Katey. At first, Dickens himself takes center...
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Lucinda Hawksley. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-05932-1
Hawksley, a British historian and biographer (and Dickens descendant), addresses rumors head-on in this sympathetic portrait of Queen Victoria’s “unconventional” daughter, the accomplished sculptor Princess Louise (1848–1939). Rebellious rather than
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Lucinda Hawksley. Thames & Hudson, $45 (256p) ISBN 978-0-500-51838-0
Historian Hawksley (Queen Victoria’s Mysterious Daughter) delivers an unnerving account of an unexpected killer in the elaborately decorated homes of Victorian England: arsenic-laced wallpaper. The use of arsenic-based pigments in wallpaper dates to
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