Laetitia Matilda Hawkins (baptized 8 August 1759[1] – 22 November 1835) was an English novelist, associated with Twickenham.
[2] Hawkins was an outspoken yet highly conservative British woman author.
Addressed to Miss H.M. Williams, with particular reference to Her Letters from France, a two-volume attack on Helen Maria Williams's Continental political writings in her Letters Written in France.
[3] The Analytical Review, a liberal paper, described Hawkins' Letters as a 'rant [...] written with much ill temper'.
[4] She wrote at least four novels, including The Countess and Gertrude (1811), and she also acted as an amanuensis for her father.