Margaret Masson Hardie Hasluck

Margaret Masson Hardie Hasluck was born June 18,1885 in Scotland and graduated from Aberdeen University where she received Honors in Classics in 1907, and then went to Cambridge, completing her studies with honors in 1911; she was not awarded a degree because Cambridge did not award degrees to women until 1948. She then attended the British School in Athens and worked in the field at Pisidian Antioch and published, “The Shrine of Mê n Askaë nos at Pisidian Antioch” and “Dionysos at Smyrna.” Marrying Frederick William Hasluck, she honeymooned in Konya, and based in Athens the couple traveled throughout Turkey and the Balkans. In 1916 Frederick contracted tuberculosis and died four years later, and Hasluck-Hardie moved to England to edit her husband's books and published them under the name of Margaret Hasluck. She then traveled to Albania where she undertook anthropological research in Macedonia and made her home in Elbasan for 13 years becoming a legend among the Albanians and publishing numerous articles including the first English-Albanian grammar and reader. Due to her intelligence work in World War I, she was forced to leave Albania for Athens when the Italians annexed the country in 1939. When Athens became unsafe she moved to Constantinople as an observer and advised the British Government intelligence about the Albanian situation and then to Cairo always carrying the Albanian cause with her. In 1945 she was diagnosed as having leukemia and moved to Cyprus and then to Dublin where she died on October 18, 1948.

Author of biography: Stocker
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