Mary Edith Durham

Career Artist / Anthropologist / Writer

Biography An artist she travelled and worked in Albania and southern Balkans, writing many books about the region [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 11/01/2007]

Biography References Who was Who 2007 / http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=6636&inst_id=65 / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Durham

Clubs & Societies Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Royal Institute of International Affairs / Oxford University Anthropological Society [speaker]

County Bedfordshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1880 - 1885

Dates active 1863-1944

Donated around 1944

English collections Pillow lace

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

Portrait link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Durham

English collection size 1