Jane Taylor

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Standard Name: Taylor, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Taylor
Nickname: Jenny
Pseudonym: Q. Q.
JT , 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.
The heading supplied for Sylvia Bowerbank 's fine entry on her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is children's writer.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
In the recent re-evaluation of women's writing, JT has her champions, notably critic Stuart Curran .
Photograph of the painting of Jane Taylor and her older sister (later Ann Taylor Gilbert) by their father, Isaac, May 1792. The girls wear matching white dresses with puffed sleeves, lace edged necklines, and pink ribbons round the waist, tied in a bow at the back. Both have wavy blonde hair, and Jane clasps a bunch of pink flowers. Behind are trees, grass, and in the distance the rest of the family clustered around a gazebo. National Portrait Gallery.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
Jane and Ann Taylor , with Adelaide O'Keeffe and others, as Several Young Persons, published their phenomenally successful collection, Original Poems for Infant Minds.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 6 (1805): 333
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
Ann and Jane Taylor revised for publication Rural Scenes; or, A Peep into the Country, for Good Children, originally written by William Darton .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 6 (1805): 108
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Adelaide O'Keeffe
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Ann Martin Taylor
AMT (mother of Ann and Jane Taylor ) published with her name Maternal Solicitude for a Daughter's Best Interests.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5 (1814): 108
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
Darton and Harvey published City Scenes; or, A Peep into London, for Children, also written by William Darton and revised by Ann and Jane Taylor .
It is often ascribed to the Taylors alone.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Adelaide O'Keeffe
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...
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
Ann and Jane Taylor 's Rhymes for the Nursery was published, as by the Authors of Original Poems.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 8 (1806): 440
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
The reading-book Limed Twigs, to Catch Young Birds, published as by the Authors of Original Poems, Rhymes for the Nursery, &c., &c., was another collaboration between Ann and Jane Taylor .
Wild birds...
Textual Production Ann Martin Taylor
A book written in collaboration between AMT and her daughter Jane was published in early 1817: Correspondence Between a Mother and her Daughter at School. They had been working on it since before AMT's...
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
Jane and Ann Taylor clubbed with friends, Josiah Conder and others, to produce, anonymously, The Associate Minstrels.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939.
171
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
Ann and Jane Taylor 's Hymns for Infant Minds was published as by the Authors of Original Poems.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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 .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
Here she expounds her method of teaching her grandchildren [or step-grandchildren] through play, and features acute critical comment on female writers for children. In particular, she makes detailed, intelligent criticism of Maria Edgeworth 's children's...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Doreen Wallace
DW does not write as a promoter. To her the Fens as a whole—including the Norfolk marsh-land—are dismally uninspiring from a scenic point of view.
Wallace, Doreen. East Anglia. Batsford, 1939.
71
She has no romantic illusions about pastoral life:...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Katharine Elwood
Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Griselda Murray , Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , Hester Lynch Piozzi

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