Ethel Stefana Drower | |
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| Born | Ethel May Stefana Stevens 1 December 1879 |
| Died | 27 January 1972 (aged 92) |
| Citizenship | British |
| Spouse | Sir Edwin Drower |
| Children | Margaret Stefana Drower, William Mortimer Drower, Denys Drower |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mandaic studies, cultural anthropology, novelist |
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Ethel, Lady Drower (née Ethel May Stefana Stevens;[1] 1 December 1879 – 27 January 1972) was a British cultural anthropologist, orientalist and novelist who studied the Middle East and its cultures.[2] She was and is still considered one of the primary specialists on the Mandaeans, and was the dedicated collector of Mandaean manuscripts.[3]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Archives Hubwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Christa Müller-Kessler, Drower [née Stevens], Ethel May Stefana, Lady Drower, in New Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 16 (Oxford, 2004), pp. 193–194. [1]
- ^ Today stored as Drower Collection (DC) in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. A comprehensive list is found in E. S. Drower, A Mandæan Bibliography, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1953, pp. 34–39.