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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Maive Stokes<br />
| other_names = Maive Boothby<br />
| birth_name = Mary Susan Harriet Stokes<br />
| birth_date = 20 November 1866<br />
| birth_place = Shimla, British India<br />
| death_date = 3 December 1961 (age 95)<br />
| death_place = London, U.K.<br />
| occupation = Writer, folklorist<br />
| notable_works = ''Indian Fairy Tales'' (1879)<br />
| father = [[Whitley Stokes (Celtic scholar)|Whitley Stokes]]<br />
| relatives = [[William Stokes (physician)|William Stokes]] (grandfather)<br>[[Margaret Stokes]] (aunt)<br />
}}<br />
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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.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Maive Stokes was born in [[Shimla]], then under [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]], the daughter of judge and scholar [[Whitley Stokes (Celtic scholar)|Whitley Stokes]] and Mary Bazely Stokes.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Narayan |first=Kirin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dVdQJmJFD9sC&dq=Maive+Stokes&pg=PA207 |title=Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales |date=1997 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-510349-6 |pages=207 |language=en}}</ref> Her grandfather was physician [[William Stokes (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,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Stokes |first=Maive S. H. |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006938781 |title=Indian fairy tales. |date=1879 |publisher=Privately published |location=Calcutta}}</ref> and in London by Ellis & White in 1880.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Stokes |first=Maive |date=1880 |title=Indian Fairy Tales |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31209/31209-h/31209-h.htm |access-date=4 April 2025 |website=Project Gutenberg}}</ref> Her mother contributed notes and her father made the book's index.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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In 1910, Stokes and her sister Annie donated their late father's large Celtic literature collection to the [[University of London]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 February 1911 |title=Literature; A Celtic Library; Addition to London's Treasures |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-watchman-a-weekly-journal-of-social/169578446/ |access-date=4 April 2025 |work=The Watchman: A Weekly Journal of Social, Political, and Religious Progress |pages=3 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=4 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250404201904/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-watchman-a-weekly-journal-of-social/169578446/ |url-status=live }}</ref><br />
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Stokes married Ernest Brooke Boothby in London in 1910.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stokes |date=31 December 1910 |title=Marriage of Boothby |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-marriage-of-boothby-s/169578192/ |access-date=4 April 2025 |work=Evening Standard |pages=17 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=4 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250404201904/https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-marriage-of-boothby-s/169578192/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=31 December 1910 |title=To-Day's Wedding; Charming Wedding Gown Made for Miss Maive Stokes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-to-days-wedding-charm/169578084/ |access-date=4 April 2025 |work=Evening Standard |pages=23 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Her husband was killed in action in 1916, in [[World War I]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 July 1916 |title=Killed in Action |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-killed-in-action/169590674/ |access-date=4 April 2025 |work=The Daily Telegraph |pages=1 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=4 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250404231532/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-killed-in-action/169590674/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She died in 1961 in [[London]], at the age of 95.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Silver|first=Carole G.|date=2004|title=English Fairy Tales and More English Fairy Tales (review)|journal=Marvels & Tales|volume=18|issue=1|pages=105–107|doi=10.1353/mat.2004.0018|s2cid=162338275|issn=1536-1802}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=6 December 1961 |title=Boothby (death notice) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-boothby-death-notic/169590875/ |access-date=4 April 2025 |work=The Daily Telegraph |pages=24 |archive-date=4 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250404231532/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-boothby-death-notic/169590875/ |url-status=live }}</ref><br />
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== Publications ==<br />
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* ''Indian Fairy Tales'' (1879)<ref name=":0" /><br />
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