Surname: Frere Forename(s): Mary Eliza Isabella b. 11 August 1845. d. 26 March 1911. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Translator and poet. Daughter of Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere. Born in Gloucestershire.
Educated privately. Lived in Bombay, India (1863-1867), where he father was the colonial
governor, and travelled with him around the Maratha territories (1865-1866). Transcribed
many fairy tale stories told to her by her ayah and published as Old Deacon Days (1868). Moved to South Africa in 1877 for her father’s next appointment. Returned
to England in 1880. Travelled to Palestine, and briefly to Egypt, in 1906. Biographical
information: Wellesley Index, ODNB. (AC)