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Charles Dickens' Favorite Daughter : The Life, Loves, and Art of Katey Dickens Perugini by Lyons Literary LLC and Lucinda Hawksley (2013, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGlobe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-100762785217
ISBN-139780762785216
eBay Product ID (ePID)143628323
Product Key Features
Book TitleCharles Dickens' Favorite Daughter : the Life, Loves, and Art of Katey Dickens Perugini
Number of Pages424 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Artists, Architects, Photographers, European, Historical, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2013
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Art, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorLyons Literary LLC, Lucinda Hawksley
FormatHardcover
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Item Weight0 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"This biography was well worth writing and is well worth reading. Katey has never had a book to herself, and she deserves one. The personality that comes through is ardent and likeable…. [Hawksley's] biography has the distinction of making you want to know more about its subject, rather than, as so often, less."-John Carey in The Sunday Times "Highly regarded artist with something of a flirty reputation … the feisty Katey as Lucinda Hawksley makes clear in her gripping biography could not have been less like the drippy and insipid love-object Victorian heroines of Dickens's novels…. In old age, Katey entertained a stream of celebrities at her small London flat, including J.M. Barrie and George Bernard Shaw…. Katey's [story] is fascinating and enthralling." -Val Hennessy in the Daily Mail, "This biography was well worth writing and is well worth reading. Katey has never had a book to herself, and she deserves one. The personality that comes through is ardent and likeable.... [Hawksley's] biography has the distinction of making you want to know more about its subject, rather than, as so often, less."--John Carey in The Sunday Times "Highly regarded artist with something of a flirty reputation ... the feisty Katey as Lucinda Hawksley makes clear in her gripping biography could not have been less like the drippy and insipid love-object Victorian heroines of Dickens's novels.... In old age, Katey entertained a stream of celebrities at her small London flat, including J.M. Barrie and George Bernard Shaw.... Katey's [story] is fascinating and enthralling." --Val Hennessy in the Daily Mail
SynopsisLucinda Hawksley is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, and her fascination with his daughter Katey began when she was organizing and curating an exhibition of her paintings in 2002 at the Dickens House Museum. This incredibly rich, in-depth biography covers the span of Katey's life: from her childhood as an adored member of the Dickens family, to her father's affair and the complicated breakdown of her parent's marriage, to her own marriage first to Charlie Collins (Wilkie Collins' brother) and then after his death to handsome Italian artist Carlo Perugini, her friendships with William Thackeray and George Bernard Shaw, and finally her life as a renowned portrait painter who exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy., As the daughter of the most famous writer of the time, Katey Dickens enjoyed a high profile in Victorian society. She pursued her love of painting, acted in her father's plays, socialized with the Thackerays, and modeled for painter John Everett Millais. This riveting biography finally sheds light on her extraordinary life both as a Dickens and an artist. The turbulent family life in the Dickens household drove Katey to marry young. Her first husband was the chronically ailing Charlie Collins, brother of the famous author Wilkie Collins. After Charlie's untimely demise, the widowed Katey fell in love and married the handsome Italian artist Carlo Perugini. Charles Dickens lovingly nicknamed Katey "Lucifer Box" because of her fiery temper. In many ways, Katey was ahead of her time; she refused to be eclipsed by her father and fought to establish herself as an artist. She became renowned as a portrait painter and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy. Katey lived to be almost ninety and her artistic prestige, which flourished during her lifetime, still persists to this day.
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