Margaret Masson Hardie Hasluck

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Margaret Masson Hardie Hasluck, born June 18, 1885 in Elgin, Scotland, died October 18, 1948 in Dublin, was an English classicist, folklorist, geographer, linguist, epigrapher and archaeologist.

Margaret Hasluck graduated from Aberdeen University where she received Honors in Classics in 1907, and then went to Cambridge, completing her studies with honors in 1911; she was not awarded a degree because Cambridge did not award degrees to women until 1948. She then attended the British School in Athens and worked in the field at Pisidian Antioch and published, "The Shrine of Men Askaenos at Pisidian Antioch" and "Dionysos at Smyrna". Marrying Frederick William Hasluck, they honeymooned in Konya, and based in Athens the couple traveled throughout Turkey and the Balkans. In 1916 Frederick contracted tuberculosis and died four years later, and Hasluck-Hardie moved to England to edit her husband's books and published them under the name of Margaret Hasluck. She then traveled to Albania where she undertook anthropological research in Macedonia and made her home in Elbasan for 13 years becoming a legend among the Albanians and publishing numerous articles including the first English-Albanian grammar and reader. Due to her intelligence work in World War I, she was forced to leave Albania for Athens when the Italians annexed the country in 1939. When Athens became unsafe she moved to Constantinople as an observer and advised the British Government intelligence about the Albanian situation. Later she went to Cairo always carrying the Albanian cause with her. In 1945 she was diagnosed as having leukemia and moved to Cyprus and then to Dublin where she died on October 18, 1948.

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The Shrine of Men Askaenos at Pisidian Antioch, 1912
Dionysos at Smyrna, 1912-1913
The Significance of Greek Personal Names, 1923
Christian Survivals among Certain Moslem Subjects of Greece, 1924
The Nonconformist Moslems of Albania, 1925
A Lucky Spell from a Greek Island, 1926
The Basil-Cake of the Greek New Year, 1927
An Unknown Turkish Shrine in Western Macedonia, 1929
Measurements of Macedonian Men, 1929
Traditional Games of the Turks, 1930
Këndime Englisht-Shqip or Albanian-English Reader: Sixteen Albanian Folk-Stories Collected and Translated, with Two Grammars and Vocabularies, Cambridge, 1932
Physiological Paternity and Belated Birth in Albania, 1932
Bride-Price in Albania: A Homeric Parallel, 1933
A Historical Sketch of the Fluctuations of Lake Ostrovo in West Macedonia, 1936
The Archaeological History of Lake Ostrovo in West Macedonia, 1936
Causes of the Fluctuations in the Level of Lake Ostrovo, West Macedonia, 1937
The Gypsies of Albania, 1938
Couvade in Albania, 1939
The Sedentary Gypsies of Metzoro, 1939
Firman of A. H. 1013-14 (A.D. 1604-5) Regarding Gypsies in the Western Balkans, 1948
Oedipus Rex in Albania, 1949
The unwritten law in Albania, publ. 1954, ISBN 0-88355-910-2