Exhibition Talk: Lucinda Dickens Hawksley on Anny Thackeray

A talk digs into the overlooked life of Anny Thackeray, novelist daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, who found fame and a name of her own long before biographers bothered to look past her father's shadow. She moved in the same literary circles as the Dickens sisters on Doughty Street, and it is faintly absurd that a woman who outsold plenty of her male peers still needs reintroducing to us now.