Lucy Garnett

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (1849–1934) was a British folklorist, ethnographer, and traveller. She is best known for her work in what is now Turkey, Northern Greece and Albania, at least some of it conducted when that area was still part of the Ottoman Empire. She also translated Greek folk songs, published in 1888. She is listed in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists.

Publications Greek folk-songs from the Ottoman provinces of northern Hellas (1888, with John Stuart Stuart-Glennie) Greek Folk-Songs from the Turkish Provinces of Greece (1890) The Women of Turkey and their Folk-Lore (1890, with John Stuart Stuart-Glennie) Turkish life in town and country (1904) The Turkish people, their social life, religious beliefs and institutions, and domestic life (1909) Turkey of the Ottomans (1911) Mysticism and Magic in Turkey (1912) Greece of the Hellenes (1914) Ottoman Wonder Tales (1915) Balkan Home Life (1917)