Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Ann Taylor Gilbert
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Standard Name: Gilbert, Ann Taylor
Birth Name: Ann Taylor
Nickname: Nancy
Pseudonym: Juvenilia
Pseudonym: Clara
Pseudonym: Maria
Pseudonym: One of the Authors of Original Poems
Married Name: Ann Gilbert
Pseudonym: A Rustic Rambler
ATG
, her next sister and two brothers, wrote and published seventy-three books. The first and most famous title appeared in 1804-5. Most of these works were collaboratively authored in various combinations. They were mainly for children and mainly in verse: Ann and Jane Taylor
are important in the history of verse for children. ATG
also wrote for and edited a children's periodical, and reviewed books by adults. In later life she wrote religious exhortation, political advice, occasional poetry, and family memoirs (completed after her death).
ES
wrote half a dozen religious and moral books, most of which are mentioned below. Ann Taylor Gilbert
believed that her literary versatility extended to the composition of sermons for languid divines.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
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Intertextuality and Influence
Lydia Howard Sigourney
The original volume also includes poems written for children. Flora's Party (in the style of William Roscoe
's The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast, 1807, Catherine Ann Dorset
's The Peacock "at Home"...
Literary responses
Jane Porter
Fifty years after its publication, Ann Taylor Gilbert
still used The Scottish Chiefs as a measure of a book which had really absorbed her.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
Following her collaboration with Ann
and Jane Taylor
, AOK
produced her own book of verse for children: Original Poems: Calculated to Improve the Mind of Youth, and Allure it to Virtue.
Ann
and Jane Taylor
were not entirely happy with the publishers' decision to include thirty-four poems by AOK
(given with her Christian name) in their collection Original Poems for Infant Minds, published in 1804...
Occupation
Hannah Kilham
She was the only European at this settlement. In a letter she wrote of the girls entrusted to her by the governor: They are fine children, and will I trust be apt to learn....
Friends, Associates
Jean Ingelow
JI
had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson
and was also close to Dora Greenwell
. She admired and respected Robert Browning
(though she...
Textual Production
Kate Greenaway
Throughout the 1880s KG
illustrated many little books by well-known authors. In 1883 she provided illustrations for Little Ann and Other Poems, a collection by the early nineteenth-century children's writers Ann (later Gilbert)
and...
Taylor, Isaac, editor. The Family Pen. Jackson, Walford and Hodder.
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Education
Mary Gawthorpe
One of the poems MG
had to learn for recitation was Meddlesome Matty by Ann Taylor (later Gilbert)
.
Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press.
47
(MG
thought it was by the other sister, and later regretted that she never...
Family and Intimate relationships
Edward FitzGerald
After remaining single until he was approaching fifty, EFG
married Lucy Barton
, a woman of his own age who had been born and lived most of her life in Suffolk. Lucy had published...
Literary responses
Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB
's early fame is exemplified in the project of a well-known London printer (reported in January 1787) for a series of plates illustrating works by the most celebrated British Poets. His list began with...