Mary Frere: 2 books
Old Deccan Days
Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India Collected from Oral Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845–1911) was an English author of works regarding India. In 1868 Frere published the first English-language field-collected book of Indian fairy-tales, Old Deccan Days.
Frere was born in Gloucestershire, England on 11 August 1845. Her father, Henry Bartle Frere,...
by Mary Frere
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
I HAVE been often asked under what circumstances these stories were collected? The circumstances were as follows. In the cold weather of 1865-6, my father, whom I accompanied, made a three months' tour through the Southern Mahratta Country, in the Bombay Presidency, of which he was then Governor....