E. S. Drower

Ethel Stefana Drower
Born
Ethel May Stefana Stevens

(1879-12-01)1 December 1879
Died27 January 1972(1972-01-27) (aged 92)
CitizenshipBritish
SpouseSir Edwin Drower
ChildrenMargaret Stefana Drower, William Mortimer Drower, Denys Drower
Scientific career
FieldsMandaic studies, cultural anthropology, novelist

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]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Archives Hub was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ 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]
  3. ^ 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.