20 November 1866
Shimla, British India
Maive Boothby
Writer, folklorist
Whitley Stokes
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.
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]
References
- ↑ Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales{{#if:Narayan|, Narayan}. Oxford University Press(1997). ISBN 978-0-19-510349-6
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Indian fairy tales.{{#if:Stokes|, Stokes}. Privately published(1879)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Indian Fairy Tales, Stokes, Maive. Project Gutenberg(1880). Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ↑ Literature; A Celtic Library; Addition to London's Treasures. The Watchman: A Weekly Journal of Social, Political, and Religious Progress(2 February 1911). Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ↑ Marriage of Boothby. Evening Standard(31 December 1910). Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ↑ To-Day's Wedding; Charming Wedding Gown Made for Miss Maive Stokes. Evening Standard(31 December 1910). Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ↑ Killed in Action. The Daily Telegraph(24 July 1916). Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ↑ English Fairy Tales and More English Fairy Tales (review). Marvels & Tales({Template:Date).
- ↑ Boothby (death notice). The Daily Telegraph(6 December 1961). Retrieved 4 April 2025.