Myrrha Bantock
Myrrha Bantock ()[] is an author and director.
Born Myrrha Bantock, she later married and was known by her married name as Myrrha Hawkes, though she apparently continued writing under her maiden name. Best known books are Tales of Elfin Town (J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1923), My Book (with music by Dorothea Barcroft, Published by Boosey & Co. Ltd., London & New York, 1926) and Granville Bantock: A Personal Portrait (J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 1972).
In the 1940s, when she and her husband were living in South Africa, she wrote and produced some children's plays, based on fairy-tales, including a production of The Snow Queen with a dramatized text and lyrics by Michael Martin-Harvey and music commissioned especially from her sister-in-law, Margaret More (26 June 1903 – 1966, a British composer, married to Raymond Bantock). It was first performed during several Christmas seasons in Johannesburg in the late 1940s.
Dramatized versions of her stories appear to have been An Apple for the Princess () and .
