B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker

Born in Ireland in 1848, B. M. Croker wrote popular novels and short stories under her married name, becoming one of the better-known late Victorian and Edwardian writers of Anglo-Indian fiction. Reliable reference sources describe her as an Irish novelist whose work often drew on life and society in British India.

She spent part of her life in India after marrying John Croker, an army officer, and that experience shaped much of her fiction. Her books often mix social comedy, travel, tension, and the small frictions of colonial life, while some of her shorter pieces move into supernatural or uncanny territory.

Croker was a prolific author, publishing many novels and story collections over several decades. She died in 1920, but her work still attracts readers interested in imperial-era popular fiction, women writers of the period, and classic ghost stories.