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Mary Susan Harriet Stokes Boothby (20 November 1866 – 3 December 1961), also known as Maive S. H. Stokes, was a writer, best known for Indian Fairy Tales (1879), published when she was still a teenager.

Maive Stokes was born in Shimla, then under British India, the daughter of judge and scholar Whitley Stokes and Mary Bazely Stokes.^[1] Her grandfather was physician William Stokes and antiquarian Margaret Stokes was her aunt. She is known for collecting and editing fairy tales heard from her man-servant and ayahs (caretakers). The book titled, Indian Fairy Tales, was published privately in Calcutta in 1879,^[2] and in London by Ellis & White in 1880.^[3] Her mother contributed notes and her father made the book's index.^[3]

In 1910, Stokes and her sister Annie donated their late father's large Celtic literature collection to the University of London.^[4]

Stokes married Ernest Brooke Boothby in London in 1910.^[5][6] Her husband was killed in action in 1916, in World War I.^[7] She died in 1961 in London, at the age of 95.^[8][9]

• Indian Fairy Tales (1879)^[2]