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).
Black and white illustration from pastel of Ann Taylor Gilbert by her son Josiah Gilbert, which he used in editing her Autobiography in 1874. She is sitting in a chair upholstered in patterned material. She is wearing a white bonnet tied in a bow under her chin, circular glasses, and a black dress. She is sitting with her head slightly inclined, with her hands together and her fingers laced.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
71
She has no romantic illusions about pastoral life:...
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...
Textual Features Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe 's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...
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.
4th ser. 5 (1814): 108
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...
Occupation Jane Taylor
The Taylor family took the formal decision that Ann and Jane should enter their father 's profession, and be trained as engravers.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons.
39
Family and Intimate relationships Jane Taylor
JT 's elder sister, Ann Taylor Gilbert , was a collaborator in her earliest writings, and continued writing long after Jane's death.
Intertextuality and Influence 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...
Reception Jane Taylor
Like her sister many years later, she replied robustly to complaint about her overtly Dissenting code of conduct. She reveals a clear sense of the disparity between standards applied to hegemonic beliefs and those applied...
Author summary Elizabeth Strutt
As a novelist and travel-writer and in one book of at least semi-feminist debate, ES seems to be addressing women; but when she writes on religion she takes men as her subject. With only one...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Strutt
ES 's first husband was John Byron, said to be an eminent physician in Hull, even though he was only twenty-five when he died. The name was given by Ann Taylor Gilbert as Brion.
Watkins, John, and Frederic Shoberl. A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland. H. Colburn.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 144-5
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Strutt
Jacob George Strutt and his siblings (a lively family of vegetarians) grew up in Colchester and were close friends of the Taylors, including the writers Jane Taylor and the future Ann Taylor Gilbert . He...
Textual Production Elizabeth Strutt
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 .
1: 145
Literary responses Elizabeth Strutt
Ann Taylor Gilbert read Triumphs of Genius and Perseverance with pleasure.

Timeline

January 1805: The Eclectic Review, a Dissenting magazine,...

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January 1805

The Eclectic Review, a Dissenting magazine, began publication in London; it ran until December 1868.

20 March 1839: The Anti-Corn Law League was founded....

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20 March 1839

The Anti-Corn Law League was founded.

May 1842: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, the first American...

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May 1842

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft , the first American Indian poet known to have written in English
Noori, Margaret. “Bicultural before There Was a Word for It”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
25
, No. 2, pp. 7-9.
7
as well as in her native Ojibwe or Ojibwa, died in her early forties at her sister's home in Canada.

By Christmas 1869: Francis Galton, mathematician, scientist,...

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By Christmas 1869

Francis Galton , mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,

Texts

Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Biographical Sketch of the Rev. Joseph Gilbert. Jackson and Walford, 1853.
Darton, William et al. City Scenes. Darton and Harvey, 1806.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, and Jane Taylor. Hymns for Infant Minds. Thomas Conder, 1810.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, and Jane Taylor. Limed Twigs, to Catch Young Birds. Darton and Harvey, 1808.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor et al. Little Ann and Other Poems. George Routledge and Sons, 1883.
Taylor, Jane et al. Original Poems for Infant Minds. Darton and Harvey, 1805.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, and Jane Taylor. Rhymes for the Nursery. Darton and Harvey, 1806.
Darton, William et al. Rural Scenes. Darton and Harvey, 1805.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Seven Blessings for Little Children. 1844.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor et al. Signor Topsy-Turvy’s Wonderful Magic Lantern; or, The World Turned Upside Down. Tabart, 1810.
Conder, Josiah et al. The Associate Minstrels. Thomas Conder, 1810.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. The Convalescent. 1839.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor et al. The Linnet’s Life. G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1822.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, and Jane Taylor. The Poetical Works of Ann and Jane Taylor. Ward, Lock, 1877.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor, and Isaac Taylor. The Wedding Among the Flowers. Darton and Harvey, 1808.