Harriet Raikes
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Harriet Raikes was the daughter of Thomas Raikes the Younger, a merchant and banker in London, and the grand-daughter of Thomas Raikes the Elder, also merchant and banker in London and Governor of the Bank of England from 1797 to 1799.
Her father became a famous dandy traveller in Europe, meeting the highest celebrities of his times and he was also a diarist. In 1861 Harriet edited her father’s correspondence with the 2nd Duke of Wellington.
She is also the author of The Marriage Contract (London: Richard Bentley, 1849, 2 vols), which is the first recorded murder mystery novel in English by a woman.
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