Anna Harriett Drury

Anna Harriett Drury (also Harriet, 1824–1912) was an English novelist who wrote "conventional romances, with a few sharp observations on the role of unattached women in their relatives' houses". She also published poetry and other novels, some marked as intended "for boys".

Life Anna Drury's birth is recorded in the 1901 census return as in 1824 in Harrow, Middlesex. Her father, Rev. William James Joseph Drury, and her grandfather, Rev. Mark Drury, had both taught at Harrow School, but they left sizeable debts when they withdrew in 1826.

Numerous books of Drury's are available in facsimile reprints, secondhand original editions, and as free downloads.

In The Normans: or, Kith and Kin (1870), the heroine pointedly asks her father, "What becomes of clergymen's daughters when their fathers die, and their homes are broken up?"

Partial list of works Friends and Fortune: A Moral Tale, 1 vol., London: William Pickering, 1849 Eastbury: A Tale, 1 vol., London: William Pickering, 1851 Light and Shade: or, The Young Artist, A Tale. 1 vol., London: William Pickering, 1853 The Blue Ribbons: A Story of the Last Century, 1 vol., London: Kerby and Son, 1855 Misrepresentation: A Novel, 2 vols, London: John W. Parker, 1859 Deep Waters: A Novel, 3 vols, London: Chapman and Hall, 1863 The Brothers: A Novel, 2 vols, London: Chapman and Hall, 1865 The Three Half-Crowns: A Story for Boys, 1 vol., London: SPCK, 1866 Richard Rowe's Parcel: A Story for Boys, 1 vol., London: SPCK, 1868 The Normans: or, Kith and Kin, 2 vols, London: Chapman and Hall, 1870 The Story of a Shower: A Novel, 2 vols, London: Bentley, 1872 Ellen North's Crumbs, 1 vol., London: SPCK, 1873 Furnished Apartments, 3 vols, London: Bentley, 1875 Gabriel's Appointment: A Novel, 3 vols, London: Bentley, 1877 Called to the Rescue, 3 vols, London: Bentley, 1879 In the Enemy's Country: or, The Raven of Steinbrück. A Story of 1813, 1 vol., London: Griffith and Farran, 1891