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Bithia Mary Croker
Bithia Mary (or May) Croker (née Sheppard, c. 1848–1920) was an Irish-born novelist, most of whose work concerns life and society in British India. Her 1917 novel ''The Road to Mandalay'', set in Burma, was the uncredited basis for a 1926 American silent film, of which only excerpts survive. She was also a notable writer of ghost stories.〔''The Feminist Companion to Literature in English'', eds Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 248.〕〔 Rosemary Cargill Raza: "Croker, Bithia Mary (c. 1848–1920)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004) (Retrieved 30 October 2015. Pay-walled )〕〔IMDb (Retrieved 30 October 2015 )〕
==Life==
The only daughter of Rev. William Sheppard (died 1856), rector of Kilgefin, County Roscommon, Ireland, writer and controversialist, Bithia was educated at Rockferry, Cheshire and in Tours, France. She became famous as a horsewoman with the Kildare Hunt.〔 In 1871, she married John Stokes Croker (1844-1911), an officer in the Royal Scots Fusiliers and later the Royal Munster Fusiliers.
In 1877, Bithia followed her husband to Madras and then to Bengal. She lived in India for 14 years, spending some time in the hill station of Wellington now in Tamil Nadu, where she wrote many of her works. She had begun to write as a distraction in the hot season. After her husband's retirement with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1892, the couple went to live in County Wicklow, then in London, and finally in Folkestone, where her husband died in 1911.〔There is a blue plaque recording her residence at 10 Radnor Cliff, Sandgate, Kent, from 1897 to 1908. (Retrieved 30 October 2015 )〕 She had one daughter, Eileen (born 1872), who was also educated at Rockferry. She remained immensely interested in reading, travelling and theatre. She died at 30 Dorset Square, London on 20 October 1920 and was buried in Folkestone.〔
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