Lady Harriet Grove Cradock (née Lister; 1809 in Staffordshire – 1884 in

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) was an English writer, best remembered for her novels ''Anne Grey'' (1834), ''Hulse House'' (1860), ''John Smith'' (1878), and ''Rose'' (1881). Her first novel was edited by her brother

Thomas Henry Lister Thomas Henry Lister (1800 – 5 June 1842) was an English novelist and biographer, and served as Registrar General in the British civil service. He was an early exponent of the silver fork novel as a genre and also presaged "futuristic" writing ...

. She served as

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from 1837 to 1844. She was the wife of

Edward Hartopp Cradock The Rev. Edward Hartopp Craddock, D.D. (29 November 1810 – 27 January 1886) was an Oxford college head in the 19th century. Craddock was born in Shenstone, Staffordshire and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, matriculating 1827, and gradu ...

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