Mary Edith Durham
| Miss Mary Edith Durham | |||||||||
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| Born | 1863 | ||||||||
| Died | 1944 | ||||||||
| Residence |
116a King Henry's Road, NW [1907] 71 Belsize Park Gardens, NW3 [1917] 4 Rosslyn Hill, NW3 [1921] 36 Glenloch Road, Hampstead, NW3 [1923] | ||||||||
| Occupation |
traveller literary | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
RAI Council 1919 Member
RAI Council 1920 Member
RAI Council 1921 Member
RAI Council 1922 Member
RAI Council 1924 Member
RAI Council 1925 Member
RAI Council 1926 Member
RAI Council 1928 Member
RAI Council 1929 Member
RAI Council 1930-31 Member
RAI Council 1931-32 Member
RAI Council 1932-33 Member
RAI Council 1933-34 Member
RAI Council 1934-35 Vice President
RAI Council 1935-36 Vice President
RAI Council 1936-37 Vice President
RAI Council 1937-38 Member
RAI Council 1938-39 Vice President
RAI Council 1939-40 Vice President
RAI Council 1940-41 Vice President
RAI Council 1941-42 Member
RAI Council 1942-43 Member
RAI Council 1943-44 Member
House Notes
1907.12.08 proposed by A.C. Haddon, seconded by Henry Balfour
1926.03.16 A hearty expression of thanks was accorded to Miss Durham for her invaluable help in re-cataloguing the Library
1945.01.16 A letter was read from Prof. Fleure expressing his sense of the loss suffered by the Institute by the death of Miss Durham
Notes From Elsewhere
Mary Edith Durham (8 December 1863 – 15 November 1944) was a British traveller, artist and writer who became famous for her anthropological accounts of life in Albania in the early 20th century.
[information sent by Heral Saraci by email 28.11.19]: she was awarded The Golden Pen in 1914 by the city of Elbasan (co-ordinated by Mit'hat Frasheri)
Publications
External Publications
Through the Lands of the Serb (1904)
The burden of the Balkans (1905)
High Albania (1909)
The struggle for Scutari (1914)
Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle (1920)
The Sarajevo Crime (1925)
Some Tribal Origins, Laws and Customs of the Balkans (1928)
Albania and the Albanians: selected articles and letters, 1903-1944, ed. by Bejtullah Destani (I.B. Tauris, 2001)
The Blaze in the Balkans; selected writings, 1903-1941 edited by Robert Elsie and Bejtullah D Destani (I.B. Tauris, 2014)
House Publications
High Albania and its customs 1908
Montenegrin manners and customs 1909
Some S. Slav customs ... from ballads 1917
Related Material Details
RAI Material
writings, photos, art works
census
A51/2/15 details of books bequested
name on benefactors board
Other Material
Much of Durham's work was donated to academic collections following her death. Her papers are held by the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, her diaries are in the Bankfield Museum, Halifax along with her collections of Balkan costume and jewellery given in 1935. Further gifts of mostly Balkan artefacts were given to the British Museum in 1914 and to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford and the Horniman Museum, London.[7]
