Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845-1911) was an English author of
works regarding India. In 1868 Frere published the first
English-language field-collected book of Indian fairy-tales, Old
Deccan Days. Frere was born in Gloucestershire, England on 11
August 1845. Her father, Henry Bartle Frere, served in the colonial
administration of Bombay since 1834. In 1862 he was appointed
Governor of Bombay. Mary Frere published several poems and a play.
Her most popular work was "Old Deccan Days; or, Hindoo Fairy
Legends, Current in Southern India. Collected From Oral Tradition,"
printed in 1868. According to Frere's introduction, she began her
collection of Indian folklore during long travels with her father.
Her only female companion was a local ayah named Anna Liberata de
Souza. She was a Christian descendant of the Lingaet caste from the
Mahratta country. What started as an idle conversation evolved into
a thorough recording and study of Indian culture. German
orientologist Max Muller reviewed Frere's collection and wrote that
her rendition of Sanskrit originals read like a direct translation
of ancient Sanskrit. Frere's father assisted with the editing of
the work and wrote an introduction to the first edition of Old
Deccan Days.
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