Adeline Belle Hawes

Adeline Belle Hawes (26 May 1857 – 12 November 1932) was an American philologist and classical scholar. Throughout her writing, she displayed a broadly humanistic, sympathetic approach rather than an interest in detailed scholarly analysis.

Adeline Belle Hawes was born on 26 May 1857 in Bridgton, Maine. She studied at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1883. After studying at Leipzig, Germany, for a year (1895-96), she went back to Oberlin College and obtained her Master of Arts degree in 1898.

Hawes belonged to the first generation of American women in the classics who were as much at home in Rome, Italy, as they were on their American campuses. She sailed to Italy during almost every summer and sabbatical, where she followed the latest developments in archaeology and epigraphy, worked in the American School library (and later, the American Academy Library), and mastered the Italian language. 

While in Italy, she studied literary and archaeological evidence for Roman daily life and also reported on new museums and cultural events in Italy and southern France interesting to classicists back in America. 

On retirement, Hawes moved permanently to Rome, Italy. She also served as an unofficial mentor, guide, and hostess to many young scholars at the Academy and to her old students on tours. 

• Charities and Philanthropies in the Roman Empire, CW 6 (1912-3) 178-81
• Latin in the Twentieth Century, Wellesley Alumnae Quarterly 2 (1918) 146-9
• Les Erinnyes at Orange, CJ 19 (1923-4) 172-3;
• Similitudo non pulchritudo CJ 21 (1925-6) 497-510;
• The Kaleidoscope of Rome, The Wellesley Magazine 10 (1926) 113-6
• A Journey through the Roman Empire, CJ 23 (1928-9) 594-600
• Light Reading from the Papyri, CJ 25 (1929-30) 535-44
• The New Antiquarium in Rome, CJ 27 (1931-2) 417-22
• Citizens of Long Ago: Essays on Life and Letters in the Roman Empire (New York & Oxford, 1934).

Hawes died on 12 November 1932 in Rome, Italy, at the age of 75.