Marianne Croker
Marianne Croker (née Nicholson; 1791/2–1854) was an English watercolour painter and author of the 19th century.
Biography
Marianne Nicholson was the daughter of Francis Nicholson, a leading watercolourist.[1]
Some time after 1818 she and her brother Alfred made the acquaintance of Thomas Crofton Croker, then a civil servant with antiquarian interests. The three made a number of trips to the south of Ireland to gather material for a proposed publication - Researches in the South of Ireland (1824) - to which Marianne contributed illustrations.[2][3]
In Marianne, Thomas Crocker found a partner sharing the same interests and talents as he; the two made numerous visits to Ireland in support of Thomas's later publications dealing with Celtic folklore.[2] Her extensive contributions to his work are largely unacknowledged.[1][4] In 1830 Marianne and Thomas were married, later having one child, Thomas Francis Dillon Croker,[1] also an amateur antiquary and poet.
Marianne was the author of two books, Barney Mahoney and My Village Versus Our Village - both published at her request under her husband's name.[2] She also exhibited a number of landscape paintings.[1]
She died on 6 October 1854, some two months after the death of her husband.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e McCormack 2004.
- ^ a b c Croker 1862.
- ^ Golightly 2007.
- ^ Haase 2008.
Works cited
- McCormack, W. J. (2004). "Croker, Thomas Crofton (1798–1854)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6739. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Haase, Donald (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. Greenwood Press. p. 241. ISBN 9780313334412.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Croker, T. Crofton (1862). Fairy legends and traditions of the south of Ireland. London: William Tegg. pp. iv–xix.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Golightly, Karen B. (December 2007). Who Put the Folk in Folklore?: Nineteenth-century Collecting of Irish Folklore from T. Crofton Croker to Lady Augusta Gregory (D.Phil). Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
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