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| Born | Mary Elizabeth Marriage 20 October 1874 |
| Died | 21 June 1952 (aged 77) Princess Beatrice Hospital, London, England |
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| Children | 2, including Marco Mincoff |
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| Thesis | Poetic relationships between humans and the plant and animal world in contemporary folk songs in High German-speaking regions (1898) |
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Mary Elizabeth Mincoff-Marriage (née Marriage; 20 October 1874 – 29 August 1952) was a British philologist, folklorist and folk-song collector.
Biography
[edit]Mincoff-Marriage was born Mary Elizabeth Marriage on 20 October 1874 in Wanstead, Essex (present-day London) to James Haworth Marriage (1839–1913), a confectionery manufacturer, and Mary Marriage (née Brookfield; 1835–1899).[a][2][3] The youngest of four siblings in Quaker family, Marriage was the sister of the translator Ellen Marriage.[3] Educated at The Mount School, Marriage won a place to study Modern and Medieval languages at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1893.[3][4] Later studying at Heidelberg University, Mincoff-Marriage was awarded her doctorate in 1898.[4][5][6]
On 11 February 1904, Marriage married Constantin Mincoff, the then attaché to the Bulgarian Legation, at the Friends meeting house in Wanstead.[3][7] The couple had two sons, including the scholar Marco Mincoff. Living in Sofia until the mid 1940s, Mincoff-Marriage later returned to London where she died at the Princess Beatrice Hospital on 21 June 1952.[8][9]
Publications
[edit]- Marriage, Elizabeth (1902). Volkslieder aus der badischen Pfalz: gesammelt und mit unterstützung des Grossherzoglich badischen ministeriums der justiz, des kultus und unterrichts. Halle.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Marriage, Elizabeth; Marriage, Margaret S. (1907). Pillow lace, a practical hand-book. London: John Murray. Reprint under the title Pillow or bobbin lace: technique, patterns, history. New York: Dover Publications. 1987.
- Mincoff, Elizabeth (1945). Bulgarian Folksongs. Sofia: Ministry of Propaganda, National Culture Deptartment.[10]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Mincoff-Marriage, Elizabeth". Deutsche Biographie (in German). Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- ↑ "Mary Elizabeth Marriage [birth register]". Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths surrendered to the Non-parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857; Gibraltar Row Burial Ground. Kew, Richmond: The National Archives: 77. 1874.
- 1 2 3 4 Lesser, Margaret (27 May 2010). "Marriage [married name Garrett], Ellen (1865–1946), translator". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/98379. Retrieved 29 September 2026. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- 1 2 Lesser, Margaret (2012). "Ellen Marriage and the Translation of Balzac". Translation and Literature. 21 (3): 343–363. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- ↑ Allen, Philip S. (May 1899). "Review: German Folk-Poetry". Modern Language Notes. 14 (5). Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University: 156–157. doi:10.2307/2917157. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- ↑ Marriage, Elizabeth (1898). Poetische Beziehungen des Menschen zur Pflanzen- und Tierwelt im heutigen Volkslied auf hochdeutschem Boden [Poetic relationships between humans and the plant and animal world in contemporary folk songs in High German-speaking regions]. Heidelberg University (PhD thesis) (in German). Bonn: P. Hanstein's Verlagshandlung. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- ↑ "Constantin Constantinovitch Mincoff and Mary Elizabeth Marriage [marriage register]". Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths surrendered to the Non-parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857; Gibraltar Row Burial Ground. Kew, Richmond: The National Archives: 33. 1874.
- ↑ Carlisle, Rodney P., ed. (2009). "Bulgaria". Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society. Sage. doi:10.4135/9781412971935.n66. ISBN 9781412971935. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
- ↑ "Elizabeth Mincoff, Mary". Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London: Principal Probate Registry: 799.
- ↑ Nelson, Lisa (24 May 2013). Bulgarian viola repertoire: a historical perspective and pedagogical analysis. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PhD thesis). Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
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