Jacquetta Hawkes

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Jacquetta Hawkes (birth name: Jacquetta Hopkins ; born August 5, 1910 in Cambridge , † March 18, 1996 ) was a British archaeologist and author .

biography

After attending school at the Perse School's daughter studied biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Frederick Gowland Hopkins became the first woman archeology and anthropology at Newnham College of Cambridge University . She undertook her first excavation at the side of the archaeologist Christopher Hawkes, whom she married in 1933 and with whom she published her archaeological experiences in the book "Prehistoric Britain". In 1939 she excavated the passage tomb of Harristown in County Waterford in Ireland .

In addition, she wrote books about Egypt , a biography about the archaeologist and most important researcher of the Indus culture Mortimer Wheeler and in 1948 a book about poetry under the title "Symbols and Speculations".

In 1953, after her divorce from Christopher Hawkes, she married the writer , journalist, literary critic John Boynton Priestley and wrote with him in 1955 "Journey Down the Rainbow", a jovial indictment against the American way of life in the form of a letter.

Hawkes was also involved in socio-political activities and was one of the founders of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament peace movement in 1957 . She was also a member of the Central Committee of UNESCO from 1966 to 1979 .

Her other publications include:

  • The Bailiwick of Jersey (= The Archeology of the Channel Islands. 2). Société Jersiaise, Jersey 1938.
  • Early Britain. Collins, London 1945.
  • A country. Random Home, New York NY 1951.
  • as editor: The World of the Past. 2 volumes. Simon and Schuster, New York NY 1963.
  • The Shell Guide to British Archeology. Joseph, London 1986, ISBN 0-7181-2448-0 .

The quote also came from her :

"Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves - or desires".

literature

  • Una McGovern (Ed.): Chambers Biographical Dictionary. 7th edition. Chambers, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 693.
  • Rachel Cooke: Her Brilliant Career. Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties. Virago, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-8440-8740-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacquetta Hawkes: God in the Machine. In: Antiquity. Vol. 41, No. 163, 1967, ISSN  0003-598X , pp. 174-180, here 174a, doi : 10.1017 / S0003598X00033202 .

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SURNAME Hawkes, Jacquetta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hopkins, Jacquetta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English archaeologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1996