found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, 9 June 2016(Lucy Mary Jane Garnett; (1849-1934), folklorist and traveller, was born in Sheffield, the daughter of Thomas Garnett, surgeon, and his wife, Lucy Sarah, née Roberts. Lucy Garnett travelled extensively in the Balkans and Middle East, recording the customs of the people among whom she lived. In Smyrna, and later in Salonica, she learned Greek and Turkish; her familiarity with demotic Greek led to a collaboration with the folklorist John Stuart Stuart-Glennie, with whom she translated and published her first compilation, Greek Folk-Songs from the Turkish Provinces of Greece, in 1885. Later books included The Women of Turkey and their Folk-Lore (1890), Mysticism and Magic in Turkey (1912), Ottoman Wonder Tales (1915), and Balkan Home-Life (1917). She also published in reviews and magazines such as the Fortnightly Review, Good Words, The Nation (New York), the Scottish Review, and the Nineteenth Century. In the 1890s she lived for a while in Manila, and published several articles on the ethnography of the Philippines. Lucy Garnett's most important achievement was the documentation and comparative study of Balkan folk literature, which is still valuable when detached from the dubious theories of 'scientific' folklore with which Stuart-Glennie tended to preface and gloss her work. She was particularly interested in the lives and status of women, and took advantage of her access to the women's quarters of remote Christian and Muslim communities to supplement the accounts of earlier travellers for whom, as she noted, 'the female sex may be said not to have existed...at all' (The Women of Turkey, 1, 1890, lxxvii). She was also drawn to Gypsies, monks, and dervishes, observing them with a crisp protestant detachment. In 1893 she was granted a civil-list pension for services to literature. She died at St Margaret's Nursing Home, Twickenham, Middlesex, on 24 February 1934)
