person
also known as Mary Louise
Collaborator and wife of Arthur Kroker. She enters the series in dialogue 73 through a pattern Bob keeps finding: the partner without whom the named work does not happen. He puts her alongside Marge Stewart with McLuhan. She died in 2018.
Across the dialogues
73
Introduced as the missing enabling figure behind Kroker, and drawn into the series' running pattern of uncredited women behind the named men
The dependency is reported at second hand from people who knew the couple, which places her in the same structural role the series assigns to Marge Stewart — indispensable and uncredited.
"Arthur couldn't do what he was doing without Mary Louise."
Connections
enabling partner ofArthur Kroker
Bob's report from people who knew them — Arthur's work depended on her.
paralleled withMarge Stewart
Bob draws the parallel to Marge Stewart's role with McLuhan.