Anne Raikes Harding, née Orchard (5 March 1781 – 28 April 1858) was an English novelist and miscellaneous writer.
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.
As well as her novels, she wrote An Epitome of Universal History (London, 1848),[3] Sketches of the Highlands (1832), and Little Sermons (1840).
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