MT
's father, Joshua Taylor
, came from a wool-trading family based in the West Riding of Yorkshire; he often travelled to the Continent on business and was fluent in French and Italian. He...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Taylor
MT
had five siblings: her sister Martha
and brothers Joshua
, John
, Joseph
and William Waring
, with the latter of whom she emigrated to New Zealand.
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.