Lucinda Hawksley

Lucinda Hawksley’s interest in the history of the women’s movement increased after researching the lives of several fascinating women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her biographies of women include Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel (Andre Deutsch); Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens’s Artist Daughter (Doubleday UK); and the critically acclaimed biography The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria’s Rebellious Daughter (Vintage). Lucinda is the great-great-great grandaughter of Charles Dickens and is a regular speaker at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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Letters of Great Women
Letters of Great Women
Lucinda Hawksley
Hardcover
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Lucinda Hawksley

Letters of Great Women

$24.95 $19.96 Save $4.99

Letters of Great Women is a beautiful collection of the most inspiring and compelling correspondence from remarkable women throughout history.

Including 50 letters from figures in the arts, politics, entertainment, activism and the military, historian Lucinda Hawksley has carefully selected diverse, extraordinary dispatches from women across all walks of life, from all around the world.

Composed of biographical synopses, fascinating images, and the transcribed letters themselves, Letters of Great Women opens a portal to some of the most significant moments and burning issues in global history, as well as the everyday joys, sorrows and struggles of women's lives.

Letters of Great Women