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).
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...
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...
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...
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
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
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
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...
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.
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...
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:...
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...
Travel
Elizabeth Strutt
Ann Taylor Gilbert
reported that ES
had returned finally from the Continent to England, yet in 1867 Strutt and her huusband died within months of each other, in Rome.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Elizabeth Strutt.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland.
