Anna K. (Anna Kelsey) Howard

Anna K. Howard, also listed as Anna Kelsey Howard, is credited by Project Gutenberg as the author of The Canadian Elocutionist. That book remains the clearest confirmed record of her work and is the main reason her name is still circulating among readers of older educational writing.

The 1885 edition of The Canadian Elocutionist identifies her more fully as Anna K. Howard, LL.B. [Miss Anna Halleck Kelsey] and describes her as a teacher of elocution and English literature. The book was designed for use in colleges and schools, which suggests she wrote with students, public reading, and spoken performance in mind.

Reliable biographical detail beyond that is scarce in the sources I could confirm during this search. Rather than a widely documented literary celebrity, she appears to have been an educator-author whose reputation rests on a specialized teaching book from late 19th-century Canada.