Blythe Harding

Very little confirmed biographical information about Blythe Harding seems to survive in widely available sources. What can be verified is that Harding is credited as the author of The Honest American Voter's Little Catechism for 1880, a short work published in New York in 1880.

In the book's preface, the author presents the piece as a humorous political dialogue shaped around the 1880 presidential election. The tone is brisk, satirical, and conversational, suggesting a writer more interested in wit and public debate than in formal political theory.

Because reliable records about Harding's life are scarce, the author is remembered mainly through this surviving publication rather than through a well-documented personal history. That gives the work an added curiosity: it offers a small but vivid glimpse of election-year political writing in late nineteenth-century America.