John Hawkesworth

(1720-1773)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773 NRA: Hawkesworth John (1720-1773) Author DNB: Hawkesworth, John (bap. 1720, d. 1773), writer LBT ID: JoHawke1773 VIAF ID: 100169604 LOC ID: n50035271	B/BAP: 1720-10-28 DIED: 1773-11-17
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English poet and essayist who published in the Adventurer and attracted condemnation for the licentiousness of the collection of travels he edited in 1773.
REFERENCES TO John Hawkesworth: Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 26 February 1808 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1808 Found 1: ¶ 12