Author, broadcaster, lecturer and public speaker. I write about literature, art, social history and the history of London, as well as biographies. My books include "Charles Dickens and his Circle", "Charles Dickens: A Bicentenary Celebration" and "Katey, The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter". Charles and Catherine Dickens were my great great great grandparents and I am a Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London.

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