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).

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.

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.
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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.

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