Francis Hawkins (Jesuit)

Francis Hawkins (1628–1681) was an English Jesuit, known as a child prodigy and translator.

He later had a long career among the English speaking Jesuits in exile.

[1] At the age of ten, Hawkins published An Alarum for Ladyes, translated from Jean Puget de la Serre, and dedicated to Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset.

Youths Behaviour was popular and ran to ten editions by 1672.

Robert Codrington wrote Youths Behaviour, or, Decency in Conversation amongst Women in 1664.