Isaac Taylor

The young Ann and Jane Taylor had a bad few months: their father was desperately ill with rheumatic fever, and at the height of his illness their mother suffered a nervous collapse.

ATG 's father, Isaac Taylor the elder , is well known in the history of printing as an engraver. He was also a dissenting minister from his ordination on 21 April 1796 (and before that...

Ann Martin married Isaac Taylor , an engraver by trade, who later became a dissenting minister.

JT 's father, Isaac Taylor the elder , was well known as an engraver. When the family moved to Colchester he became a Dissenting minister, and he spent an hour in prayer every morning.

All these books were written under the disadvantage of parental disapproval, or at least anxiety. Isaac Taylor the elder did not want his children to become authors.

In July 1797 Isaac Taylor the elder responded to the harsh economic climate (caused in turn by the war with France) by beginning to employ his children in his engraving business instead of apprentices.

The Taylor family took the formal decision that Ann and Jane should enter their father 's profession, and be trained as engravers.

Ann and Jane Taylor left their childhood home at Lavenham in Suffolk, to move with their family to Colchester in Essex, where their father became a dissenting minister.

ATG , her sister Jane , and perhaps their brother Isaac , anonymously provided the twelve poems making up a children's book called The Linnet's Life, illustrated by their father .