Elodie Lawton Mijatović (also spelled Mijatovics and Mijatovich; 1825 – 13 December 1908) was a British author who lived in

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in the 1850s, where she was an advocate of the

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movement.

Biography

In 1864 she married

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n politician, writer and diplomat

Čedomilj Mijatović Čedomilj Mijatović ( sr-Cyrl, Чедомиљ Мијатовић; 17 October 1842 – May 14, 1932) was a Serbian statesman, economist, historian, writer and diplomat. Mijatović served as the Ministry of Finance (Serbia), Minister of Finance s ...

(1842–1932) and lived with him in

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and then in

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, where she died. She translated several works from English into Serbian and published several books on

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

*Simha Kabiljo-Šutić, ''Posrednici dveju kultura. Studije o srpsko-engleskim književnim i kulturnim vezama'' 'Mediators between two Cultures. Studies on Serbian-English Literary and Cultural Relations'' (Belgrade: Institut za književnost i jezik, 1989) pp. 9–48. *Slobodan G. Marković, ''Grof Čedomilj Mijatović. Viktorijanac među Srbima'' (''Count Čedomilj Mijatović. A Victorian among Serbs''), Belgrade, Dosije and the

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Press, 2006, pp. 66–71. *''Slavonic Review'', Nos. 15-16 (March and June 1927). Dragutin Subotić, Yugoslav Popular Ballads. Their origin and development (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1932).

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