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	[[File:Mary_Eliza_Isabella_Frere.jpg\|thumb\|upright\|Photographic portrait of a lady, probably Mary Frere, by the royal photographers Walery of 164 Regent Street, London, made between 1888 and 1896. Cory Library.]]		[[File:Mary_Eliza_Isabella_Frere.jpg\|thumb\|upright\|Photographic portrait of a lady, probably Mary Frere, by the royal photographers Walery of 164 Regent Street, London, made between 1888 and 1896. Cory Library.]]
	'''Mary Eliza Isabella Frere''' (1845–1911) (nickname ''May'') was an English author of works regarding India. In 1868 Frere published the first English-language field-collected book of Indian storytales, ''Old Deccan Days''.<ref name="D334"/><ref>https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Old_Deccan_Days</ref>		'''Mary Eliza Isabella Frere''' (1845–1911) (nickname ''May'') was an English author of works regarding India. In 1868 Frere published the first English-language field-collected book of Indian storytales, ''Old Deccan Days''.<ref name="D334"/><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Old_Deccan_Days\|title=Old Deccan Days - Wikisource, the free online library}}</ref>

	==Early life==		==Early life==

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'''Mary Eliza Isabella Frere''' (1845–1911) (nickname ''May'') was an English author of works regarding India. In 1868 Frere published the first English-language field-collected book of Indian storytales, ''Old Deccan Days''.<ref name="D334"/><ref>https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Old_Deccan_Days</ref>

==Early life==
Frere was born at the rectory of [[Bitton]] in [[Gloucestershire]], England on 11 August 1845.<ref name="Brown" /> Nicknamed ''May'', she was the eldest of five children (the others being [[Catherine Frances Frere|Catherine]], Georgina, Eliza and [[Frere baronets|Bartle]]) of [[Henry Bartle Frere]] and his wife Catherine (died 1899) who was the daughter of Lieutenant-General [[Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet]]. Mary's father had served in the colonial administration of [[Mumbai|Bombay]] since 1834, and in 1862 he was appointed [[List of Governors of Bombay|Governor of Bombay]]. The family lived in the Parish of St Mary, Wimbledon, where Mary was privately educated.<ref name="D334">[[Richard Dorson|Dorson, R. M.]] (1999). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=DiCjLRGRkS4C History of British folklore]''. Taylor and Francis. {{ISBN|0-415-20476-3}}. p. 334.</ref><ref name="Raza"/><ref name="Rootsweb">[http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=swets&id=I43152 Rootsweb. 1871 census - Frere household in Wimbledon]</ref>

==Published works==
Frere published several poems and a play. Her most popular work was ''Old Deccan Days; or, Hindoo Fairy Legends, Current in Southern India. Collected From Oral Tradition'', printed in 1868, with illustrations by her sister Catherine Frances Frere. According to Frere's introduction, she began her collection of [[Indian folklore]] during long travels with her father. Her only female companion was a local [[Amah (occupation)|ayah]] named [[Anna Liberata de Souza]].<ref name="D334"/><ref name="Brown" /> She was a Christian descendant of the Lingaet caste from the [[Maharashtra|Mahratta country]].<ref name="D334"/> What started as an idle conversation evolved into a thorough recording and study of Indian culture. German orientologist [[Max Müller]] reviewed Frere's collection and wrote that her rendition of [[Sanskrit]] originals read like a direct translation of ancient Sanskrit.<ref name="D334"/> Frere's father assisted with the editing of the work and wrote an introduction to the first edition of ''Old Deccan Days''.<ref name="D335">Dorson, p. 335.</ref> The extensive background and 'Narrator's Narrative' supplied in the work is unusual for the period, placing the tales in the context of the difficult life of the teller.<ref name="Greenwood">{{cite book|last=Haase|first=Donald|title=The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cVHhj-GIk0wC&q=Mary+Frere&pg=PA899|volume= Q-Z|year=2008|publisher=Greenwood|page=899|chapter=South Asian Tales|isbn=9780313334443}}</ref> The book was a success; by the time of the third English edition (1881) it was printed in [[German language|German]], [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], [[Danish language|Danish]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Standard Hindi|Hindi]] and [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] languages.<ref name="D335"/> The book was republished with an introduction by [[Kirin Narayan]] in 2002.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Frere|first1=Mary|editor1-last=Narayan|editor1-first=Kirin|editor1-link=Kirin Narayan|title=Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends|date=2002|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1576076804}}</ref>

In the introduction to his 1892 Indian volume of fairy tales, [[Joseph Jacobs]] reprinted and acknowledged Frere's contribution to these:<ref name="Jacobs">{{cite book|last1=Jacobs|first1=Joseph|last2=Batten|first2=John D.|title=Indian Fairy Tales |url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Indian_Fairy_Tales_(Jacobs)#x|year=1892|publisher=D. Nutt|location=London|page=x}}</ref>

<blockquote>Though Indian fairy tales are the earliest in existence, yet they are also from another point of view the youngest. For it is only about twenty-five years ago that Miss Frere began the modern collection of Indian folk-tales with her charming "Old Deccan Days".</blockquote>

Catherine edited ''[[The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie]]'', helping to publish it in 1909 after Lady Clark's death at her husband Sir John Forbes Clark's invitation.<ref name="Dyson">{{cite web |last1=Dyson |first1=Sue |last2=McShane|first2=Roger |title=The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie by Charlotte Clark |url=http://www.foodtourist.com/ftguide/Content/I1652.htm |publisher=FoodTourist |access-date=5 January 2018}}</ref> The work was praised by the novelist [[Virginia Woolf]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=McNeillie |first1=A. |title=The Essays of Virginia Woolf, volume 1: 1904–1912 |date=1986 |publisher=Hogarth Press |page=301 |isbn=978-0-701-20666-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Woolf |first1=Virginia |title=The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie |work=Times Literary Supplement |date=25 November 1909}}</ref> and the cookery writer [[Elizabeth David]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=David |first1=Elizabeth |authorlink=Elizabeth David |title=Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen |date=2000 | orig-year=1970 |publisher=Grub Street |isbn=978-1-902-30466-3 |url=http://www.acanthus-books.com/thicparbis19.html |pages=230–231}}</ref>

==Death and commemoration==
Frere died in Sussex on 26 March 1911.<ref name="Brown">{{cite web|url=http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=frerma|title=Mary Frere (Overview)|others=Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy (editors)|year=2006|work=Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present.|publisher=Cambridge University Press Online|access-date=31 July 2010|location=Cambridge}}</ref><ref name="Raza">{{cite ODNB|id=33273|title=‘Frere, Mary Eliza Isabella [May] (1845–1911)|last=Raza|first=Rosemary Cargill }}</ref>
She is buried at [[Brookwood cemetery]].<ref>{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Frere, Mary Eliza Isabella|first= Frank Herbert |last=Brown}}</ref>

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