Joyce Hawkins

Joyce Mary Hawkins was a lexicographer and the editor of a number of dictionaries.
Joyce Hawkins studied classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
Hawkins initially worked on a Patristic Greek dictionary, published in 1961 by Oxford University Press. 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.
Hawkins edited the following dictionaries, published by Oxford University Press :The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary, with Jessie Coulson, et al., 1975The Oxford Minidictionary, 1981The St Michael Oxford Dictionary, 1981The Oxford Senior Dictionary, 1982The Oxford Paperback Dictionary, 1988The Oxford Reference Dictionary, 1989The Oxford Study Dictionary, 1994The Oxford Large Print Dictionary, 1995The Oxford Popular Dictionary & Thesaurus, with Sara Hawker, 1995The Oxford School Dictionary, 1996The Oxford Popular Dictionary, 1998The Oxford Pocket School Dictionary, with Andrew Delahunty, et al., 2000The Oxford Popular English Dictionary, with Lucinda Coventry, et al., 2000Oxford School Dictionary, with Robert Allen, Andrew Delahunty, et al., 2002Oxford Concise School Dictionary, with Andrew Delahunty, et al., 2003
Hawkins died in 1992.