Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Harding, A.

by Francis Watt

HARDING, Mrs. A. (1779–1858), novelist and miscellaneous writer, born in 1779, wrote the following novels: 1. 'Correction,' 3 vols., 1818. 2. 'Decision,' 3 vols., 1819. 3. 'The Refugees,' 3 vols., 1822. 4. 'Realities,' 4 vols., 1825. 5. 'Dissipation,' 4 vols., 1827. 6. 'Experience,' 4 vols., 1828. She also wrote 'The Universal History' (London, 1848), 'Sketches of the Highlands,' other 'instructive and popular volumes,' and many contributions to 'the reviews and different periodicals of the day.' Mrs. Harding published all her works anonymously. She died on 28 April 1858, at the house of her son-in-law, the Rev. Kynaston Groves.

[Gent. Mag. 1858, i. 684; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Halkett and Laing's Dict. of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Lit.]

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Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.146
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line

Page	Col.	Line
335	ii	28	Harding, Mrs. A.: for Mrs. A. (1779-1858), read Mrs. Anne Raikes (1780-1858),
		29	for 1779, read 1780, married Thomas Harding, a merchant at Bristol and
		20 f.e.	for at the house read at Boulogne, at the house
		19 f.e.	for Kynaston Groves. read William Kynaston Groves.