Marjory Scott Wardrop (11 November 1869 – 7 December 1909) was an
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scholar and translator of
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literature. She was a sister of the
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diplomat and scholar of Georgia,
Sir Oliver Wardrop
Sir John Oliver Wardrop KBE CMG (10 October 1864 – 19 October 1948) was a British diplomat, traveller and translator, primarily known as the United Kingdom's first Chief Commissioner of Transcaucasia in Georgia, 1919–20, and also as the fo ...
.
Fluent in seven foreign languages, she also learned
Georgian
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and traveled to Georgia (then part of
Imperial Russia
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) in 1894-5 and 1896. She translated and published ''Georgian Folk Tales'' (
London
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, 1894), ''The Hermit'' by
Ilia Chavchavadze
Prince Ilia Chavchavadze ( ka, ილია ჭავჭავაძე; 8 November 1837 – 12 September 1907) was a Georgian public figure, journalist, publisher, writer and poet who spearheaded the revival of Georgian nationalism during the ...
(London, 1895), ''The Life of
St. Nino'' (
Oxford
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, 1900), etc. She also made the first
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prose translation of ''
The Knight in the Panther's Skin
''The Knight in the Panther's Skin'' ( ka, ვეფხისტყაოსანი, tr literally "the one with the skin of a tiger") is a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th or 13th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustav ...
'', a medieval Georgian
epic poem
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...
by
Shota Rustaveli
Shota Rustaveli ( ka, შოთა რუსთაველი, c. 1160 – after c. 1220), mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and one of th ...
(published by Oliver Wardrop in London, 1912). After her death, Sir Oliver created the Marjory Wardrop Fund at
Oxford University
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"for the encouragement of the
study of the language, literature, and history of Georgia, in
Transcaucasia
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."
[Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007)]
Wardrop, Oliver and Marjory Scott.
''Dictionary of Georgian National Biography''. Retrieved on May 8, 2007.
A statue of Marjory and Oliver, by
Jumber Jikia, was unveiled on 18 October 2015,
during the
Tbilisoba
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festival, in Tbilisi's Oliver Wardrop Square, which itself opened during the 2014 Tbilisoba.
A room in the
National Library
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in the city also bears their names.
References
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External links
Marjory Wardrop.''
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Georgian Folk Tales by Marjory Wardrop
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Events
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at ''sacred-texts.com''.
The Knight in the Panther’s Skin. by Marjory Wardrop
978 edition at ''National Parliamentary Library of Georgia''.
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1869 births
1909 deaths
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