词条 | Elodie Lawton |
释义 |
Elodie Lawton Mijatović (also spelled Mijatovics and Mijatovich; 1825 – 13 December 1908) was a British author who lived in Boston in the 1850s, where she was an advocate of the abolitionist movement. BiographyIn 1864 she married Serbian politician, writer and diplomat, Čedomilj Mijatović (1842–1932), and lived with him in Belgrade and then in London where she died. She translated several works from English into Serbian, and published several books on Serbia in English, including The History of Modern Serbia (London: William Tweedie, 1872) and Serbian Folk-lore (London: W. Isbister & Co, 1874). She translated Serbian national songs of the Kosovo cycle into English and tried to organise them into one national ballad: Kossovo: an Attempt to bring Serbian National Songs, about the Fall of the Serbian Empire at the Battle of Kosovo, into one Poem (London: W. Isbister, 1881). References
External links
5 : English–Serbian translators|British non-fiction writers|1825 births|1908 deaths|19th-century translators |
随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。