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.
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.
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]
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