Anne Raikes Harding Explained

Anne Raikes Harding
Birth Name:	Anne Raikes Orchard
Birth Date:	1779 3, df=yes
Birth Place:	Bath, England
Occupation:	Writer
Language:	English
Genre:	Fiction
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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]

Harding published all her writing anonymously. As well as her novels, she wrote An Epitome of Universal History (London, 1848),^[2] Sketches of the Highlands (1832), and Little Sermons (1840). She also contributed to reviews and periodicals.^[3]

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.

Notes and References

1. Howard. Rachel. 2007. Domesticating the Novel: Moral-Domestic Fiction, 1820-1834. ProQuest.
2. • Book: Harding, Anne Raikes . An epitome of universal history from the earliest period to the revolutions of 1848 . London . Longman . 1848.
3. 12257. Harding [née Orchard], Anne Raikes.
4. Harding, A.. Watt. Francis. 24. Watt cites Gentleman's Magazine 1858, i. 684; the British Museum catalogue; and Halkett and Laing's Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature.