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Maria Leach
Maria Leach (30 April 1892 – 22 May 1977) was an American author and editor of books on folklores of the world. A noted scholar, she compiled and edited a major reference work on folklore and was the author or editor of thirteen books for adults, young people, and children.〔"Author Maria Leach Dies in Shelburne," ''Shelburne County Coast Guard,'' obituary, 1 June 1977.〕
==Early life, education, and marriage==
Born in New York City, Maria Leach was the former Alice-Mary Doane, daughter of Benjamin H. Doane and Mary (Davis) Doane.〔Mrs. Maria Doane Leach," ''Cape Breton Post,'' Sydney, Nova Scotia, obituary, 30 May 1977.〕 Her father was a native of Nova Scotia, one of Canada's three Maritime provinces. Born in Barrington, in Shelburne County, he was a descendent of the venerable family called Doane (an Anglicized form of a Gaelic name common in southern Ireland since the 1500s).〔Patrick Hanks, ''Dictionary of American Family Names,'' vol. 1 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).〕 In Nova Scotia, he had connections to seafaring through his own father, a ship's captain. In the late 1870s or early 1880s, Benjamin Doane and his wife Mary, a native of South Carolina and an unreconstructed Rebel, moved to New York and established a home in Manhattan, where they lived for some years and raised their children.
Alice-Mary Doane spent her youth and received her early education in New York City. Upon graduation from high school she went to Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, whose curriculum was shaped by the perspective of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). She then went on to study for a master's degree in anthropology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. There she met MacEdward Leach, a student of medieval literature and philology with a strong interest in folklore. His fascination with the oral tradition of medieval folk tales was shared by Alice-Mary, who by then was known as Maria (pronounced "Ma-RYE-uh," in the British fashion), which she had adopted as a pen name. After MacEdward Leach earned a bachelor's degree in 1916 and completed his military service in World War I, he and Maria married in 1917 and moved to Baltimore, where both of them pursued graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University.
MacEdward Leach earned a master's degree at Johns Hopkings that same year, 1917.〔''MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada,'' "Personal Life," www.mun.ca/folklore/leach, a website produced at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Saint John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.〕 Maria continued her studies toward a doctorate in folklore in 1918–19.〔"Author Maria Leach Dies in Shelburne," obituary, 1 June 1977.〕 In 1920 he entered the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and began teaching as an instructor of English. Not long after, in 1924, the Leaches became the parents of a son, Macdonald, their only child. As a young father, MacEdward Leach obtained his doctorate in English in 1930 and joined the faculty of the university in 1931 as an assistant professor of English.
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