Marjory Scott Wardrop (11 November 1869 – 7 December 1909) was an English scholar and translator of Georgian 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 fou ...

. Fluent in seven foreign languages, she also learned Georgian and traveled to Georgia (then part of

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) in 1894-5 and 1896. She translated and published ''Georgian Folk Tales'' (

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, 1894), ''The Hermit'' by

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(London, 1895), ''The Life of

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'' (

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, 1900), etc. She also made the first

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prose translation of ''

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'', a medieval Georgian

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Shota Rustaveli Shota Rustaveli ( ka, შოთა რუსთაველი, – 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 the g ...

(published by Oliver Wardrop in London, 1912). After her death, Sir Oliver created the Marjory Wardrop Fund at

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"for the encouragement of the study of the language, literature, and history of Georgia, in

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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

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festival, in Tbilisi's Oliver Wardrop Square, which itself opened during the 2014 Tbilisoba. A room in the

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in the city also bears their names.

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Marjory Wardrop.
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Georgian Folk Tales
by Marjory Wardrop

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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''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wardrop, Marjory 1869 births 1909 deaths English translators Translators from Georgian 19th-century English historians Kartvelian studies scholars Writers from London 19th-century English translators Georgian–English translators 20th-century English historians British expatriates in the Russian Empire

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