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B. M. Croker

Croker, Bithia Mary Sheppard

May 28, 1847 – October 20, 1920 (aged 73)

Birth place: Warrenpoint, County Down, Ireland, UK

4 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
July 1897 59 Short Fiction Sullivan's Bargain The Cornhill Magazine, July 1897
December 1998 55 Short Fiction The Red Woollen Necktie Enigmatic Tales, December 1998
October 2000 100 Review 'Number Ninety' and Other Ghost Stories All Hallows, October 2000
April 2023 9 Short Fiction The Little Brass God The Green Book, Bealtaine 2023


Source for birth date and place is RoscommonHistory.ie (Archive.org above), which notes that "Bithia spent some of her childhood in Kilgefin, and for this reason she is generally accepted as being a Roscommon author."
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