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Jane Taylor
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Standard Name: Taylor, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Taylor
Nickname: Jenny
Pseudonym: Q. Q.
, a writer of poems for children when she was little more than a child herself, saw herself in adulthood as first and foremost a Christian writer, seeking to change the lives of her readers, adults as well as the young. Her poems and fictions are vividly inventive: she creates animal characters which comically mirror and illuminate human characteristics, as well as thumb-nail sketches of ordinary people whose moral and psychological quirks (not only failings) are vividly realised. Her skill in dialogue and scenes of everyday social interaction matches that in character-study. In a family where all were writers, her siblings recognised that she was the outstanding talent. In most generations since her death one or two serious critical voices have been heard in her praise, while the general or popular idea of her has been that of merely a pious writer for children. In the recent re-evaluation of women's writing,
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The heading supplied for
's fine entry on her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is children's writer.
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Timeline
Texts
Darton, William et al. City Scenes. Darton and Harvey, 1806.
Taylor, Ann Martin, and Jane Taylor. Correspondence between a Mother and her Daughter at School. Taylor and Hessey, 1817.
Taylor, Jane. Display. Taylor and Hessey, and J. Conder, 1815.
Taylor, Jane. Essays in Rhyme. Taylor and Hessey, and Josiah Conder, 1816.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, and Jane Taylor. Hymns for Infant Minds. Thomas Conder, 1810.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, and Jane Taylor. Limed Twigs, to Catch Young Birds. Darton and Harvey, 1808.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor et al. Little Ann and Other Poems. George Routledge and Sons, 1883.
Taylor, Jane. Memoirs and Poetical Remains of the Late Jane Taylor. Editor Taylor, Isaac, B. J. Holdsworth, 1825.
Taylor, Jane et al. Original Poems for Infant Minds. Darton and Harvey, 1805.
Taylor, Jane, and Mrs E. Whitty. “Preface”. A Mother’s Journal during the Last Illness of her Daughter, S. Chisman, B. J. Holdsworth, 1820.
Taylor, Jane. Rachel. Taylor and Hessey, 1817.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, and Jane Taylor. Rhymes for the Nursery. Darton and Harvey, 1806.
Darton, William et al. Rural Scenes. Darton and Harvey, 1805.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor et al. Signor Topsy-Turvy’s Wonderful Magic Lantern; or, The World Turned Upside Down. Tabart, 1810.
Conder, Josiah et al. The Associate Minstrels. Thomas Conder, 1810.
Taylor, Jane. The Authoress. A Tale. Taylor and Hessey, 1819.
Taylor, Jane. “The Beggar Boy”. The Minor’s Pocket Book, Darton and Harvey.
Taylor, Jane. The Contributions of Q. Q. to a Periodical Work. B. J. Holdsworth, 1824.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor et al. The Linnet’s Life. G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1822.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, and Jane Taylor. The Poetical Works of Ann and Jane Taylor. Ward, Lock, 1877.