Anne Raikes Harding

Anne Raikes Harding
Born	Anne Raikes Orchard (1779-03-05)5 March 1779 Bath, England
Died	28 April 1858(1858-04-28) (aged 79)
Occupation	Writer
Language	English
Genre	Fiction

Anne Raikes Harding, née Orchard (5 March 1781 – 28 April 1858) was an English novelist and miscellaneous writer.

Harding was born on 5 March 1781 in Bath. She married Thomas Harding but he died intestate in 1805, leaving her to raise their three children. She ran a school and worked as a governess while writing her novels.[1][2]

Harding published all her writing anonymously. As well as her novels, she wrote An Epitome of Universal History (London, 1848),[3] Sketches of the Highlands (1832), and Little Sermons (1840). She also contributed to reviews and periodicals.[1]

She died on 28 April 1858, at the house of her son-in-law, the Rev. William Kynaston Groves.[4]

Works

• Correction, 3 vols., 1818.
• Decision, 3 vols., 1819.
• The Refugees, 3 vols., 1822.
• Realities, 4 vols., 1825.
• Dissipation, 4 vols., 1827.
• Experience, 4 vols., 1828.

References

1. "Harding [née Orchard], Anne Raikes". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12257. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Howard, Rachel (2007). "Domesticating the Novel: Moral-Domestic Fiction, 1820-1834" (PDF). ProQuest.
3. * Harding, Anne Raikes (1848). An epitome of universal history from the earliest period to the revolutions of 1848. London: Longman.
4. Watt, Francis (1890). "Harding, A." . In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Watt cites Gentleman's Magazine 1858, i. 684; the British Museum catalogue; and Halkett and Laing's Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature.