Background
Marianne Nicholson was the daughter of Francis Nicholson, a leading watercolourist.
Marianne Nicholson was the daughter of Francis Nicholson, a leading watercolourist.
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. Her extensive contributions to his work are largely unacknowledged. In 1830 Marianne and Thomas were married, later having one child, Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, 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.
She also exhibited a number of landscape paintings.