Mrs. Bithia Mary Croker nee Sheppard (1850- 1920) was a British romantic novelist. She was educated in Cheshire before marrying an army officer. Her works include: Pretty Miss Neville (1883), Proper Pride (1885), Some One Else (1885), Diana Barrington: A Romance of Central India (1888), Two Masters (1890), Interference (1891), A Family Likeness: A Sketch in the Himalayas (1892), 'To Let' (1893), Mr. Jervis (1894), Married or Single? (1895), The Real Lady Hilda (1896), Beyond the Pale (1897), Peggy of the Bartons (1898), Terence (1899), A State Secret and Other Stories (1901), The Cat's Paw (1902), Her Own People (1903), The Happy Valley (1904), The Old Cantonment, With Other Stories of India and Elsewhere (1905) and The Youngest Miss Mowbray (1906). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.