Anne Raikes Harding, née Orchard (5 March 1781 – 28 April 1858) was an English novelist and miscellaneous writer.
Anne Raikes Harding | |
|---|---|
| Born | Anne Raikes Orchard 5 March 1779 Bath, England |
| Died | 28 April 1858 (aged 79) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
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
edit- 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
edit- ^ a b "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.)
- ^ Howard, Rachel (2007). "Domesticating the Novel: Moral-Domestic Fiction, 1820-1834" (PDF). ProQuest.
- ^ * Harding, Anne Raikes (1848). An epitome of universal history from the earliest period to the revolutions of 1848. London: Longman.
- ^ Watt, Francis (1890). . 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.
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