Next Day of Special Interest
Three Remarkable Women
Thu 15th Oct 2026 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
This Event Is Open to Non-Members
A day of special interest
- The event will be held, as usual, at The Arthar Morison Memorial Hall Cucklington (see VENUE below for directions).
- Ticket price will be £45 per person, to include coffee/tea and a superb lunch - with wine!
- On arrival, you will be welcomed with coffee/tea. There is an opportunity to mingle with other attendees before the start of the first lecture at 10:30.
- After the first lecture there will be a break for tea/coffee before the start of the second lecture at 12:00.
- The second lecture ends at 13:00 and there will be a short break before lunch is served at around 13:20. This will include wine and coffee.
- To book your place, please complete the form provided at all earlier monthly lectures. If you prefer to print the form click SHOW FORM , then click the printer icon on the displayed PDF. Please hand the completed form to Hennie Walton or The Treasurer at a monthly lecture before the event.
- Contact Hennie Walton 07960 633340 hennwal@btinternet.com.
Itinerary
Doors Open at 10:00
10:00 – 10:30 Booking in and morning coffee
10:30 – 11:30 First Lecture
12:00 – 13:00 Second Lecture
13:00 – 14:30 Break for Lunch
14:30 – Third Lecture starts.
The DOSI ends at around 16:00.
The Lecturer is Lucinda Hawksley
Lucinda Hawksley is an Author, Broadcaster, Lecturer and Award winning Travel Writer.
She has worked as an Interviewee, Consultant and Presenter on TV and Radio Shows Worldwide.
She has written biographies of three Female Artists, Katey Perugini (nee Dickens), Princess Louise and Lizzie Siddal, who are the intriguing subjects of her lectures on this Day of Special Interest.
Three Remarkable Victorian Women
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862
Saved from the drudgery of a working-class existence by a young Pre-Raphaelite artist, Lizzie Siddal rose to become one of the most famous faces in Victorian Britain and a pivotal figure of London's artistic world, until tragically ending her young life in a laudanum-soaked suicide in 1862. In the twenty-first century, even those who do not know her name always recognise her face: she is Millais' doomed Ophelia and Rossetti's beatified Beatrice. (Author’s notes)
Lucinda’s DOSI Lecture will bring her life back into focus
Revisiting Princess Lou
Katey Pugini
(nee Dickens)
29 October 1839 – 9 May 1929
Katey Perugini was the daughter of Charles Dickens
As ‘Kate Perugini’, her art has been largely ignored or forgotten about, a typical fate of Victorian female artists. Her male peers, many of whom were considered less accomplished than she during their lifetimes, are still talked about today. (Author’s notes)
Lucinda’s DOSI lecture will bring light to her memory.
(Lucinda herself is a great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens making Katey her great-great-great aunt)
Princess Louise
Duchess of Argyll
18 March 1848 – 3 December 1939
‘Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In her public life, she was a strong proponent of the arts and higher education and of the feminist cause. She was an able sculptor and artist, and several of her sculptures remain today. She was also a supporter of the feminist movement, corresponding with Josephine Butler, and visiting Elizabeth Garrett. ‘ ( Wikipedia extract)
Lucinda’s DOSI Lecture will explore this third intriguing, truly ‘Victorian’, Artist.
EVENT
Three Remarkable Women
Thu 15th Oct 2026 @ 10:00
VENUE
Arthur Morison Memorial Hall, Rowls Lane, Cucklington.
Wincanton,
Somerset
BA9 9PY
United Kingdom.
ORGANISER
The Arts Society Blackmore Vale