Lucy Garnett Explained

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (1849–1934) was a British folklorist and traveller.^[1] She is best known for her work in what is now Turkey, Northern Greece and Albania, at least some of it conducted when that area was still part of the Ottoman Empire. She also translated Greek folk songs, published in 1888.^{[2] [3]}

She is listed in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists.

Publications

• Greek folk-songs from the Ottoman provinces of northern Hellas (1888, with John Stuart Stuart-Glennie)^[4]
• Greek Folk-Songs from the Turkish Provinces of Greece (1890)
• The Women of Turkey and their Folk-Lore (1890, with John Stuart Stuart-Glennie)^[5]
• Turkish life in town and country (1904)^[6]
• The Turkish people, their social life, religious beliefs and institutions, and domestic life (1909)^[7]
• Turkey of the Ottomans (1911)^[8]
• Mysticism and Magic in Turkey (1912)^[9]
• Greece of the Hellenes (1914)^[10]
• Ottoman Wonder Tales (1915)^[11]
• Balkan Home Life (1917)^[12]

See also

Commentary on the Ottoman Empire

• • • Bey Effendi Pasha
      • Robert College Demographics of the Ottoman Empire Education in the Ottoman Empire Languages of the Ottoman Empire

Collected stories

Note: For clarification, the author collected tales similar to the following stories:

• E Bukura e Dheut (character)
• Filek-Zelebi
  • Fortunatus (book) Maroula
• The Death of Koschei the Deathless
• The Golden-Headed Fish
  • The Sleeping Prince (fairy tale) The Story of Zoulvisia
• The Three Enchanted Princes

Notes and References

1. Web site: Garnett, Lucy Mary Jane (1849–1934). Fowler. Rowena. 2004. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 22 October 2010.
2. Web site: Semele Assinder. Research. 13 April 2011.
3. https://archive.org/details/greekfolksongsf00garngoog/page/n6/mode/2up?view=theater Lucy M.J. Garnett, Greek Folk-songs from the Ottoman Provinces of Northern Hellas, 1888
4. Book: Stuart-Glennie, John S. . Greek folk-songs from the Ottoman provinces of northern Hellas . Garnett . Lucy Mary Jane . 1888 . Ward and Downey . The modern revolution. Inductive generalizations. Researches and essays. . London.
5. Book: Garnett, Lucy Mary Jane . The women of Turkey and their folk-lore . Stuart-Glennie . John S. . 1890–91 . D. Nutt . London.
6. Book: Garnett, Lucy Mary Jane . Turkish life in town and country . 1911 . G.P. Putnam's sons . Our European neighbours . New York, London.
7. Book: Garnett, Lucy Mary Jane . The Turkish people, their social life, religious beliefs and institutions, and domestic life . 1909 . Methuen & co. . London.
8. Book: Garnett, Lucy Mary Jane . Turkey of the Ottomans . 1911 . Sir I. Pitman & Sons . London.
9. Book: Garnett, Lucy Mary Jane . Mysticism and magic in Turkey; an account of the religious doctrines, monastic organisation, and ecstatic powers of the Dervish orders. . 1912 . Scribner . London.
10. Book: Garnett, Lucy Mary Jane . Greece of the Hellenes . 1914 . Scribner . Countries and people series. . New York.
11. Book: Garnett, Lucy Mary Jane . Ottoman wonder tales . 1915 . A. and C. Black, limited . London.
12. Book: Garnett, Lucy Mary Jane . Balkan home life . 1917 . Methuen & co. ltd. . London.