Florence Huntley (née, Chance; 1855 – February 1, 1912) was an American journalist, editor, humorist, and occult author of the long nineteenth century.

After his death in 1886, she became a journalist and editor, working for several publications, including the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Tribune, The Washington Post, and Iowa City Republican.

After meeting John E. Richardson, whom she married decades later, she worked on the Harmonic Series, a system of science and philosophy intended to connect the demonstrated and recorded knowledge of ancient spiritual schools with the discovered and published facts of the modern physical school of science.

[4] The climax of a young woman of free-thinking tendencies was her marriage to Stanley Huntley in 1879 in Bismarck, North Dakota.

She suggested to her husband, who was a special writer on the Brooklyn Eagle, the sketches which made him famous, Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke being the characters.

Her husband being an invalid for two years before his death, Mrs. Huntley told of her own entrance into the literary field:[5] "The people who laughed over the humorous things he continued to write would have felt tears burning in their hearts, if they could have seen this frail, delicate, nervous man, racked with pain and burning with fever, sitting bravely at his desk writing jokes to pay our board bills.

One, when driven by necessity, he agreed, against his inclination, to write a serial story for a New York young folks' paper.

An increasing board bill and an unfinished contract stared us in the face and nerved me to the rashness of writing the next installment, for which I received twenty dollars.

At the end of five weeks Mr. Huntley returned, considerably improved, and found me with bills all paid and a new serial under way, and the gifted editor apparently none the wiser.

"With the death of Mr. Huntley, in 1885, Mrs. Huntley's independent literary life began, first as a political news writer from Dakota Territory to the Saint Paul, Minnesota and Minneapolis dailies, next as editor and humorous paragrapher on the (now Minneapolis Star-Tribune, which was resigned for a similar position on The Washington Post in 1890, where remained for a year, having charge of a woman's page and regular editorial and humorous paragraphs.

[5] This, in turn, was abandoned for independent work, which included a Congressional news bureau for The Hutchinson News in Hutchinson, Kansas; short stories for the National Tribune at Washington, D.C.; Capitol gossip for New York City and Chicago papers; and tariff papers for The Economist.

The publications and her editorial management were the result of her researches in the realm of the occult philosophy, which she termed The Great School of Natural Science, and which researches caused her to abandon her early materialistic life, and to adopt a belief in life after physical death, which she held that her philosophy demonstrated scientifically.

She was an educated, trained, talented, successful newspaper woman; an altruist, a philosopher, a thinker, and a genius for dissecting and analyzing intricate psychological problems.

[Found later to be false see PDf 'For the Record']-> [But a short time before her death, she became aware of TK's real nature, the awful consequences of his destructive influences, together with her own part in carrying them out.]