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Beatrice L. (Beatrice Louise) Drake
Best known for helping bring South African folk stories into print, this early-20th-century writer is remembered for a single enduring collaboration. Her surviving public record is very slight, which gives her work an added air of mystery.
1 Audiobook
Fairy tales from South Africa
by Sarah F. Bourhill, Beatrice L. (Beatrice Louise) Drake
About the author
Beatrice L. Drake, also listed as Beatrice Louise Drake and Mrs. J. B. Drake, is credited as the co-arranger of Fairy Tales from South Africa with Sarah F. Bourhill. The book was first published in 1908 and presents stories collected from original native sources and shaped for English-language readers of the time.
Modern catalog and library records confirm that this is the main work reliably linked to her. Because very little biographical information appears in the sources now readily available, details about her life beyond that publication are unclear.
Even so, her name remains tied to a book that helped preserve and circulate South African oral storytelling traditions for later generations of readers.