LUCINDA HAWKSLEY has written more than twenty books, including biographies of the Victorian artists Lizzie Siddal, Kate Perugini (n e Dickens) and Princess Louise. Her other titles include Dickens and Christmas, Bitten by Witch Fever, Letters of Great Women and March, Women, March. As a travel writer and former travel editor, Lucinda has long been fascinated by Charles Dickens's travels and the ease with which he moved around the globe - as well as why this is such a little-known aspect of Dickens's life. Lucinda is also a broadcaster, a public speaker, and a Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London.