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Blythe Harding
Known today for a sharp, compact political satire from the 1880 U.S. presidential campaign, this writer left behind a small but memorable historical curiosity. Very little biographical information appears to survive, which gives the work an added air of mystery.
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The Honest American Voter's Little Catechism for 1880
by Blythe Harding
About the author
Blythe Harding is the credited author of The Honest American Voter's Little Catechism for 1880, a brief political satire published in 1880. The book is available through Project Gutenberg and is described there as a dialogue-style work connected to the presidential election of that year.
Beyond that publication, reliable biographical details about Harding are hard to confirm from readily available sources. No clear birth and death information, personal history, or widely documented literary career turned up in the sources reviewed for this profile.
That scarcity makes Harding an unusually elusive figure, but the surviving work still offers a glimpse of late-19th-century American political humor and campaign commentary.