Margaret Croker
Margaret Croker | |
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 her 1818 three volume novel | |
| Born | Margaret Sarah Croker Before 1773, |
| Died | After 1820, |
| Nationality | Great Britain |
Margaret Sarah Croker (before 1773 - after 1820 ) was a British poet and novelist.
Life
[edit]She was baptised on 5 March 1773 in Holbeton in Devon. Her parents were Mary and Captain Richard Croker.[1]
Croker's poems are seen as examples of women speaking out in the hope of getting a woman as a monarch after a disappointing run of male monarchs. Someone who could be "firm" as she says in her 1817 lament A Monody on the Lamented Death of Princess Charlotte Augusta.[2]
Her 1818 three volume novel was titled The Question, who is Anna?.[3] It concerned the life of a woman who was born to unmarried parents. Croker deals with her heroine in a kindly way.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (2004-09-23). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/63517. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63517. Retrieved 2023-01-26. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Kramarae, Cheris; Spender, Dale (2004-04-16). Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge. Routledge. p. 817. ISBN 978-1-135-96315-6.
- ^ Croker, Miss M. S. (1818). The Question, Who is Anna? A Tale. J. Souter.
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