Marie Clothilde Balfour (20 October 1862 – September 1931) was a British writer, translator, and folklorist.
She wrote three novels, stories, and plays; translated poetry and a French Revolution-era memoir; collected folk stories and songs; and edited two volumes of letters from her aunt.
She spent her early years in New Zealand while he father was working there; when he died in 1869, she returned to Scotland with her mother.
[1] Balfour wrote three novels, translated a French Revolution-era memoir, and edited two volumes of letters from her aunt, Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson, sent during her travels with her son in Polynesia.
"From time to time doubts have been expressed about the authenticity of the tales that Marie Clothilde Balfour said she had collected," notes one scholar,[4] because the tales she published were especially strange, and she certainly added her own literary flourishes.