Margaret Croker

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MC , publishing in the early nineteenth century, is a competent poet (best when least formal) but an outstanding novelist, even on the evidence of her one identified work of fiction (among at least three published).
  • BirthName: Margaret Sarah Croker

Milestones

1777

MC was born at Holbeton in Devon.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1818

MC published her only identified novel, The Question, Who is Anna?; she had it Printed for the Author.
Croker, Margaret. The Question, Who is Anna? A Tale. J. Souter, 1818, 3 vols.
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After November 1825

MC died: the exact date is not known; but she is last heard of in this month, in her final application to the Royal Literary Fund .
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

Biography

Birth and Family

1777

MC was born at Holbeton in Devon.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.