Elodie Lawton

Who was Elodie Lawton?

Elodie Lawton Mijatović was a British author who lived in Boston in the 1850s, where she was an advocate of the abolitionist movement. In 1864 she married Serbian politician, writer and diplomat, Čedomilj Mijatović, and lived with him in Belgrade and then in London where she died. She translated several works from English into Serbian, and published several books on Serbia in English, including Тhe History of Modern Serbia and Serbian Folk-lore.

She translated Serbian national songs of the Kosovo cycle into English and tried to organise them into one national ballad: Kossovo: an Attempt to bring Serbian National Songs, about the Fall of the Serbian Empire at the Battle of Kosovo, into one Poem.