Anne Raikes Harding

{{Short description|English writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}} {{Use British English|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Anne Raikes Harding | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Anne Raikes Orchard | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1779|03|05}} | birth_place = Bath, England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1858|04|28|1779|03|05}} | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Writer | language = English | nationality = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = Fiction  | subject =  | movement = | notableworks =  | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = }} '''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.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Howard|first=Rachel|date=2007|title=Domesticating the Novel: Moral-Domestic Fiction, 1820-1834|url=http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55754/1/U584275.pdf|journal=ProQuest}}</ref>

Harding published all her writing anonymously. As well as her novels, she wrote ''An Epitome of Universal History'' (London, 1848),<ref>* {{Cite book |last=Harding |first=Anne Raikes |title=An epitome of universal history from the earliest period to the revolutions of 1848 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t5db8v847&view=1up&seq=6|location = London | publisher = Longman |year=1848}}</ref> ''Sketches of the Highlands'' (1832), and ''Little Sermons'' (1840). She also contributed to reviews and periodicals.<ref name=":0">{{Cite ODNB|id=12257|title=Harding [née Orchard], Anne Raikes}}</ref>

She died on 28 April 1858, at the house of her son-in-law, the Rev. William Kynaston Groves.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Harding, A.|last=Watt|first=Francis|authorlink=|volume=24}} Watt cites ''Gentleman's Magazine'' 1858, i. 684; the British Museum catalogue; and Halkett and Laing's ''Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature''.</ref>

==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.

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