Anne Moncure Crane (Seemüller) (January 7, 1838 – December 10, 1872) was an American novelist, who wrote such books as Emily Chester, Opportunity and Reginald Archer., which were about female sexual desires.
Because of it her novels were considered controversial in some quarters of post-Civil War American society.
The author Henry James, among others, was influenced by Crane's books.
She was an important writer in early American realism