Susannah Taylor

SA 's mother, Susannah Taylor (née Cook) , possessed the pen of a ready writer, particularly of letters, and was known for both her beauty and talent. She was an earnest woman with...

LDG endeavoured to be prepared for the arrival of her child; she purportedly continued reading Rousseau 's Émile (a treatise on education which devotes almost all of its attention to boys) until well into her...

The Rev. Dr Samuel Cooper (husband of the novelist Maria Susanna Cooper ) also knew LA when she was a girl. He thought her very intelligent and preferred to talk to her at a party...

Pupils who acknowledged her influence included Thomas Denman , who later drafted the 1832 Reform Act. Friends from this period of her life included Susannah Taylor (mother of the translator and editor Sarah Austin ).

Their friends included Eliza Fenwick , Helen Maria Williams , Susannah Taylor , Mary Hays , Amelia Opie , Thomas Holcroft , John Thelwall , and other radicals. AP supported Thelwall's local electioneering, and Ann Jebb

AO 's friendship with Anne and Annabella Plumptre (daughters of Robert Plumptre , Prebend of Norwich, both of whom grew up to be writers) dated from their shared childhood. Her friendship with the...

In London she met many artists, writers, and politically active reformists: as well as Godwin , she met Elizabeth Inchbald , Mary Wollstonecraft (who impressed her deeply, and trusted her enough to confide her plans...

AO is said to have had little formal education. She was, however, trained in charitable activity on the one hand, and on the other she learned French and was encouraged in her literary interests and...

Janet Ross , SA 's grand-daughter, published Three Generations of Englishwomen: Memoirs and Correspondence of Mrs. John Taylor , Mrs. Sarah Austin , and Lady Duff Gordon.

She ranges through much of literary history, paying attention to figures such as Anna Seward and Mrs John Taylor (mother of Sarah Austin ) as well as men like Charles Dickens . Among her non-literary...

In her will (witnessed by John and Susannah Taylor of Norwich), AP left everything to her brother Robert, a barrister.