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.
Harding published all her writing anonymously. As well as her novels, she wrote An Epitome of Universal History (London, 1848),* Sketches of the Highlands (1832), and Little Sermons (1840). She also contributed to reviews and periodicals.
She died on 28 April 1858, at the house of her son-in-law, the Rev. William Kynaston Groves. Watt cites Gentleman's Magazine 1858, i. 684; the British Museum catalogue; and Halkett and Laing's Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature.
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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