Florence Huntley

Florence Huntley
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Florence Chance 1855 Alliance, Ohio, U.S.
Died	February 1, 1912 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.
Resting place	Oak Park Cemetery, Oak Park, Illinois
Occupation	journalist, editor, humorist, and occult author
Alma mater	Methodist Female College (Ohio Wesleyan University)
Spouse	Stanley Huntley John Emmett Richardson
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Florence Huntley (née, Chance; 1855 – February 1, 1912) was an American journalist, editor, humorist, and occult author of the long nineteenth century. Hailing from Ohio, she married the writer Stanley Huntley in 1879 and during this marriage, she worked with him on his Spoopendyke sketches. After his death in 1886, she became a journalist and editor, working for several publications, including the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Tribune, The Washington Post, and Iowa City Republican. After meeting John E. Richardson, whom she married decades later, she worked on the Harmonic Series, a system of science and philosophy intended to connect the demonstrated and recorded knowledge of ancient spiritual schools with the discovered and published facts of the modern physical school of science. She was the author of The Dream Child, in 1892; Harmonics of Evolution, 1897. She was the editor of The Great Psychological Crime, 1903; The Destructive Principle of Nature In Individual Life, 1903; The Great Work, the Constructive Principle of Individual Life, 1907.^[1] She wrote approximately 70,000 letters.^[2]