Joyce Mary Hawkins (1928–1992) was an English lexicographer and the editor of a number of dictionaries.
Life and career Joyce Hawkins was born in 1928. She studied classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
Hawkins initially worked on a Patristic Greek dictionary, published in 1961 by Oxford University Press (OUP). She then worked on the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement. In this role, she read most of the works of P. G. Wodehouse for quotations. Later she was sole editor or joint editor of many OUP dictionaries, working on these until her retirement in 1991. She also appeared briefly in "Dictionary Corner" on the British television game show Countdown.
She edited the following dictionaries, published by Oxford University Press (some posthumously):
The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary, with Jessie Coulson, et al., 1975 The Oxford Minidictionary, 1981 The St Michael Oxford Dictionary, 1981 The Oxford Senior Dictionary, 1982 The Oxford Paperback Dictionary, 1988 The Oxford Reference Dictionary, 1989 The Oxford Study Dictionary, 1994 The Oxford Large Print Dictionary, 1995 The Oxford Popular Dictionary & Thesaurus, with Sara Hawker, 1995 The Oxford School Dictionary, 1996 The Oxford Popular Dictionary, 1998 The Oxford Pocket School Dictionary, with Andrew Delahunty, et al., 2000 The Oxford Popular English Dictionary, with Lucinda Coventry, et al., 2000 Oxford School Dictionary, with Robert Allen, Andrew Delahunty, et al., 2002 Oxford Concise School Dictionary, with Andrew Delahunty, et al., 2003
Hawkins died in 1992.
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