Dickens and Travel: The Start of Modern Travel Writing

by Lucinda Hawksley

Overview

Charles Dickens's global travels across Europe, America, and Canada influenced his literary works.

From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures, and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Travel, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by the author – who is also her great great great grandfather.

Although Dickens is usually perceived as a London author, in the 1840s he whisked his family away to live in Italy for year, and spent several months in Switzerland. Some years later he took up residence in Paris and Boulogne (where he lived in secret with his lover). In addition to traveling widely in Europe, he also toured America twice, performed onstage in Canada and, before his untimely death, was planning a tour of Australia.

Dickens and Travel enters into the world of the Victorian traveler and looks at how Charles Dickens’s journeys influenced his writing and enriched his life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526735638
Publisher:	Pen and Sword
Publication date:	07/20/2022
Pages:	280
Sales rank:	897,687
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lucinda Hawksley is an author, broadcaster and public speaker. She has written more than twenty books, including critically acclaimed biographies, art history, social history, the history of London and travel writing. This is her third book about her great great great grandfather, Charles Dickens. Lucinda has appeared on television and radio programmes around the globe. She is a Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London.