Mary Elizabeth Mincoff-Marriage (; 20 October 1874 – 29 August 1952) was a British philologist, folklorist and folk-song collector.
Biography Mincoff-Marriage was born Mary Elizabeth Marriage on 20 October 1874 in Wanstead, Essex (present-day London) to James Haworth Marriage (1839–1913), a confectionery manufacturer, and Mary Marriage (née Brookfield; 1835–1899). The youngest of four siblings in Quaker family, Marriage was the sister of the translator Ellen Marriage. Educated at The Mount School, Marriage won a place to study Modern and Medieval languages at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1893. Later studying at Heidelberg University, Mincoff-Marriage was awarded her doctorate in 1898.
On 11 February 1904, Marriage married , the then attaché to the Bulgarian Legation, at the Friends meeting house in Wanstead. The couple had two sons, including the scholar Marco Mincoff. Living in Sofia until the mid 1940s, Mincoff-Marriage later returned to London where she died at the Princess Beatrice Hospital on 21 June 1952.
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