Bio:B. M. Croker

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B. M. Croker (1849-1920) was a popular and widely selling author who had a successful career from 1880 until her death in 1920.

Her novels, most of which are set either in India, her native Ireland, or England, were considered witty and fast moving.

Bithia Mary Sheppard was born in County Roscommon, the only daughter of an Anglican clergyman, and married John Stokes Croker (1844-1911), an officer in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, in 1871. The couple moved to Madras, India immediately after the marriage. They later lived in Bengal, and at a hill-station in Wellington (where many of her stories were written). On Colonel Croker’s retirement in 1892, they moved to in County Wicklow, Ireland, and finally settled in Folkestone, England.

(Source: Blurb for "Number Ninety” and Other Ghost Stories, possibly excerpted from bio contained in that volume. Stored here because this author has no Wikipedia page, and might well be judged of too little significance for one. The facts stated here are consistent with those on other sites that have bios of this author. -DES ^Talk 00:48, 9 June 2008 (UTC))