Inspirational Quotes by Jacquetta Hawkes (English Archaeologist, Writer)

Jacquetta Hawkes (1910–96,) née Hopkins, was a British archaeologist and writer who was one of the foremost popularizes of archaeology. Her most recognized work on the archaeology of Britain, A Land, portrayed the story of Britishness as one of the repeated waves of migration. Hawkes also served on the Central Committee of UNESCO (1966–79) and co-founded the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1957.

Born in Cambridge, England, Hawkes was the daughter of English biochemist Sir Frederick Hopkins, the 1929 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. Educated at the Perse School and Newnham College-Cambridge, she was the first woman to study archaeology and anthropology to a degree level. She participated in many archaeological excavations 1931–40 in Britain, Ireland, France, and Palestine.

Christopher Hawkes, whom she married in 1933 and with whom she published Prehistoric Britain (1944,) directed Hawkes’s first excavation. Her earlier publications include The Archaeology of Jersey (1939,) Early Britain (1945,) and A Land (1951.) She also wrote on Egyptian topics, poetry, and plays, produced a biography of archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler, and wrote a book of poetry, Symbols and Speculations (1948.)

With her second husband, novelist, playwright, and critic J. B. Priestley, Hawkes wrote Journey Down the Rainbow (1955,) an optimistic indictment of U.S. life in letterform and fictional works. Her later publications include The World of the Past (1963,) The First Great Civilizations—Life in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and Egypt (1977,) and the Shell Guide to British Archaeology (1986)

A Quest for Love (1981) is an autobiographical novel. A double biography of Priestley and Hawkes is Diana Collins’s Time and the Priestleys, the Story of a Friendship (1994.)

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