About Harriet Raikes
Lived 1809 – 1890 (aged 80–81). Harriet Raikes was a British biographer and writer.
Harriet Raikes (2 August 1808 – 4 October 1890) was an English author, whose 1849 book The Marriage Contract was the first recorded murder mystery novel in English by a woman.
Raikes was born in London, the daughter of Thomas Raikes the Younger and Sophia Maria Bayly.
She died in 1890 in Versailles, Yvelines.
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British writer (1809–1890)
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Harriet Raikes was born in 1809.
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Harriet Raikes died in 1890.
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Harriet Raikes was a biographer and writer.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Harriet Raikes. https://biography.guide/harriet-raikes/
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