Maive Stokes
19th century author
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Mary Susan Harriet Stokes Boothby (20 November 1866 – 3 December 1961), also known as Maive S. H. Stokes, was a writer, best known for Indian Fairy Tales (1879), published when she was still a teenager.
20 November 1866
Maive Stokes | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mary Susan Harriet Stokes 20 November 1866 Shimla, British India |
| Died | 3 December 1961 (age 95) London, U.K. |
| Other names | Maive Boothby |
| Occupations | Writer, folklorist |
| Notable work | Indian Fairy Tales (1879) |
| Father | Whitley Stokes |
| Relatives | William Stokes (grandfather) Margaret Stokes (aunt) |
Biography
Maive Stokes was born in Shimla, then under British India, the daughter of judge and scholar Whitley Stokes and Mary Bazely Stokes.[1] Her grandfather was physician William Stokes and antiquarian Margaret Stokes was her aunt. She is known for collecting and editing fairy tales heard from her man-servant and ayahs (caretakers). The book titled, Indian Fairy Tales, was published privately in Calcutta in 1879,[2] and in London by Ellis & White in 1880.[3] Her mother contributed notes and her father made the book's index.[3]
In 1910, Stokes and her sister Annie donated their late father's large Celtic literature collection to the University of London.[4]
Stokes married Ernest Brooke Boothby in London in 1910.[5][6] Her husband was killed in action in 1916, in World War I.[7] She died in 1961 in London, at the age of 95.[8][9]
Publications
- Indian Fairy Tales (1879)[2]
