Ann's brother Isaac
later wrote my father was a man of talent, but my mother was a woman of genius.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874. http://U of A, HSS Ruth N , http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
2: 285
Ann maintained that her mother (who had more sensibility, and suffered more from...
Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Taylor
Her brother Isaac
, another writer, became (with Ann) an important source of information about the family.
Intertextuality and Influence
Margaret Sandbach
Other poems in the collection are more political and philosophical in nature. In On Reading of Slavery in America, she calls on the Spirit of Freedom
Sandbach, Margaret. Poems. W. Pickering, 1840.
43
to Pour o'er the hearts of men...
Literary responses
Ann Taylor Gilbert
Her brother Isaac
wrote to congratulate her, and to express his delight that she had at length returned to your vocation.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
Taylor, Isaac, editor. The Family Pen. Jackson, Walford and Hodder, 1867.
209
Material Conditions of Writing
Jane Taylor
Much of JT
's earliest writing was done with her sister Ann
. They would walk in the garden together when Jane was only seven, reciting the poems they had written. Two years later she...
Author summary
Ann Martin Taylor
Having borne and educated a remarkable family of precocious authors, AMT
followed her daughters Ann
and Jane
and her son Isaac
into print in 1814, and produced a series of conduct books and a volume...
Publishing
Ann Taylor Gilbert
Ann
and Jane Taylor
's satirical Signor Topsy-Turvy's Wonderful Magic Lantern; or, The World Turned Upside Down was published with their brother Isaac
's illustrations.
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Publishing
Sarah Tytler
ST
found in J. A. Froude
of Fraser's Magazine a very agreeable editor who gave his contributors a free hand, was sympathetic, could pay a cordial compliment, while such criticism as he offered was gentle...
Residence
Jane Taylor
Threat of French invasion caused the Taylor family to send their children, under the care of Jane
and the younger Isaac
, from Colchester back to their previous home in Lavenham.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874. http://U of A, HSS Ruth N , http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 171-3, 174
Textual Production
Ann Taylor Gilbert
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
.
JT
's Memoirs and Poetical Remains was posthumously published with a memoir by her brother Isaac
.
Stewart, Christina Duff. The Taylors of Ongar: An Analytical Bio-Bibliography. Garland, 1975.
419
Timeline
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Texts
Darton, William, Ann Taylor Gilbert, Jane Taylor, and Isaac Taylor. City Scenes. Darton and Harvey, 1806.
Taylor, Jane. Memoirs and Poetical Remains of the Late Jane Taylor. Editor Taylor, Isaac, B. J. Holdsworth, 1825.
Taylor, Jane, Ann Taylor Gilbert, Adelaide O’Keeffe, Isaac Taylor, and Bernard Barton. Original Poems for Infant Minds. Darton and Harvey, 1805.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, Jane Taylor, Isaac Taylor, and Isaac Taylor. Signor Topsy-Turvy’s Wonderful Magic Lantern; or, The World Turned Upside Down. Tabart, 1810.
Taylor, Isaac, editor. The Family Pen. Jackson, Walford and Hodder, 1867.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, Isaac Taylor, Jane Taylor, and Isaac Taylor. The Linnet’s Life. G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1822.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, and Isaac Taylor. The Wedding Among the Flowers. Darton and Harvey, 1808.