Elodie Lawton

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Elodie Lawton Mijatović (also spelled Mijatovics or Mijatovich) was a British writer, translator, and abolitionist born in 1825. She lived in Boston in the 1850s and supported the abolition of slavery. In 1864 she married Serbian politician and diplomat Čedomilj Mijatović, and they lived in Belgrade and later in London, where she died on 13 December 1908. She translated works from English into Serbian and wrote about Serbia in English. Her notable books include The History of Modern Serbia (1872) and Serbian Folk-lore (1874). She also translated Serbian Kosovo songs into English and tried to unite them into one national poem, published as Kosovo: an Attempt to bring Serbian National Songs, about the Fall of the Serbian Empire at the Battle of Kosovo, into one Poem (1881).