Lucinda hawksley biography of william
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I am a bit late with this book introduction, but even though it was published already in , it’s still available. The subtitle “Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home” tells what this book is all about. If you are interested in design, Victorian era, medical history or all kind of sinister stuff, then this award-winning book is for you. It’s also one of the most beautiful books I have seen for a while. After the book introduction I will continue the wallpaper story beyond the book.
I bought the book already a couple of years ago, and the idea of writing about it has been in my mind for some time now. The author, Lucinda Hawksley, is related to Charles Dickens, who is author’s great great grandfather. No wonder that Hawksley has written several books about Dickens, too. She is an expert on Pre-Raphaelite and Aestheticism and a lecturer.
Bitten by Witch Fewer. Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home is a beautiful book that has received recognition of its design. All the wallpaper plates are full size pages and the much narrower text pages are interleaved with the wallpaper pages. The book is presenting beautiful wallpaper designs one after another from many companies. They have one thing in common: they contain arsenic. The name of the book is a quotation fro
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Interview with Lucinda Hawksley
Lucinda Hawksley is a best-selling author, speaker, and the great-great-great- granddaughter of Charles Dickens. If you have not yet read her biography of Lizzie Siddal: Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel, I encourage you to do so. It is an interesting and well-researched narrative of Siddal&#;s life. She has also recently published a biography of Charles Dicken&#;s daughter, Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens&#;s Artist Daughter
: One of the reasons I started was because I was frustrated with the fact that almost everything I could find about her online only dealt with the gothic aspects of her death and exhumation. Which is why I, and so many others, are thrilled with your book. You&#;ve personalized her without idealizing her. You obviously knew a great deal about her before writing this book, but during the process, did you find any information that surprised you?
Lucinda Hawksley:
I was surprised by the discovery that it was she who seems to have started the rumour that she lived in a slum, when actually she didn&#;t. I was also very fascinated by researching the areas in which she grew up (through the Holborn and Southwark local studies libraries) and finding out about the people she lived near and the buildings that wer
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Bitten by Enchantress Fever: Paper & Trioxide in representation Victorian Home
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