Marie Clothilde Balfour

Marie Clothilde Balfour (20 ga Oktoba 1862 - Satumba 1931) marubuciya ce ta Burtaniya, mai fassara, kuma masanin gargajiya. Ta rubuta litattafai uku, labaru, da wasan kwaikwayo; ta fassara shayari da tarihin juyin juya halin Faransa; ta tattara labarun gargajiya da waƙoƙi; kuma ta shirya kundin wasiƙu biyu daga kawunta.

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haifi Balfour a Edinburgh, 'yar James Balfour, sanannen injiniya, da Christina Simson Balfour (daga baya Nicholson). Marubucin Robert Louis Stevenson dan uwanta ne na farko. Ta yi shekaru na farko a New Zealand yayin da mahaifinta ke aiki a can; lokacin da ya mutu a 1869, ta koma Scotland tare da mahaifiyarta.

 Littattafai 
Balfour ta rubuta litattafai uku, ta fassara tarihin juyin juya halin Faransa, kuma ta shirya kundin wasiƙu biyu daga kawunta, Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson, wanda aka aiko yayin tafiye-tafiye tare da ɗanta a Polynesia . Ta kuma rubuta wasan kwaikwayo da labaru, kuma ta tattara al'adun gargajiya. "Daga lokaci zuwa lokaci an nuna shakku game da sahihancin labarun da Marie Clothilde Balfour ta ce ta tattara," in ji wani masanin, saboda labarun da ta buga sun kasance masu ban mamaki, kuma tabbas ta kara da nata ci gaban wallafe-wallafen.

 "Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars" (Folk-Lore, Vol. II, 1891, jerin labarai)   Behrend, Michael. "Are the legends authentic?" Republications.
 White Sand (1896, littafin) 
 Maris Stella (1896, littafi) 
 "Sub Tegmine Fagi" (The Yellow Book, Volume X, Yuli 1896, ɗan gajeren labari) 
 Fall of the Sparrow (1897, littafin) 
 "Saint Joseph da Maryamu, daga waƙar gargajiya ta Faransa" (The Yellow Book, Volume XII, Janairu 1897, waka da Balfour ya fassara) 
 Daga Saranac zuwa Marquesas da bayan haka; kasancewar wasiƙu da Mrs. M. I. Stevenson ta rubuta a lokacin 1887-88, ga 'yar'uwarta, Jane Whyte Balfour (1903, wanda Balfour ya shirya) 
 Misalan litattafan gargajiya da aka buga game da Northumberland (1904, waƙoƙin gargajiya da aka tattara) 
 Memoirs of Mlle des Écherolles, kasancewa a gefe a kan mulkin ta'addanci (1904, wanda Balfour ya fassara) 
 Mrs. M. I. Stevenson, Wasiƙu daga Samoa, 1891-1895 (1906, wanda Balfour ya shirya) 

 Rayuwa ta mutum 
Balfour ta auri dan uwanta na farko, likita James Craig Balfour; suna da 'yar, Marie Margaret Melville Balfour, wacce ita ma ta zama marubuciya. Mijin Balfour ya mutu a shekara ta 1907, kuma ta mutu a London a shekara ta 1931. 

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