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Anne Taylor (actress)
Ann or Anne Taylor may refer to: *Ann Taylor (writer, born 1757) (1757–1830), English writer *Ann Taylor (poet) (1782–1866), English poet and children's writer, daughter of the above *Ann Taylor (actress) (born 1936), British actress, hostess and singer *Ann Taylor (newscaster) (born 1945), American radio personality *Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton (born 1947), British Labour Party politician *Ann Bonfoey Taylor (1910–2007), American aviator, flight instructor and fashion designer *Anne Taylor (netball administrator), New Zealand netball administrator; see Netball and the Olympic Movement *Anne Taylor (netball player), New Zealand netball player *Ann Inc., American clothing retailer that uses the brand "Ann Taylor" See also *Ann Taylor Allen, American historian *Annie Taylor (other) Annie Taylor may refer to: * Annie Edson Taylor (1838–1921), first American to ride Niagara Falls in a barrel *Annie Taylor Hyde (1849–1909), American Mormon leader and Utah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Taylor (writer, Born 1757)
Ann Taylor or Ann Martin (20 June 1757 – 27 May 1830) was a British writer. Her children were also notable writers and this included Ann and Jane Taylor. Life Taylor was born in London in 1757. Her father, who died when she was a child, was an evangelical preacher. Her mother married again and her new siblings bullied her. She found respite writing satire and verse which gave her increased status among her school peers. Among those peers was Isaac Taylor and at Islington on 18 April 1781 she married him. They had eleven children and five survived to adulthood and to be noted writers. * Ann born at Islington on 30 January 1782, who married Joseph Gilbert; * Jane Taylor; *two Isaacs who died in infancy; *Isaac Isaac; grc, Ἰσαάκ, Isaák; ar, إسحٰق/إسحاق, Isḥāq; am, ይስሐቅ is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He was th ... (1787–1865); ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Taylor (poet)
Ann Gilbert (née Taylor; 30 January 1782 – 20 December 1866) was an English poet and literary critic. She gained lasting popularity in her youth as a writer of verse for children. In the years up to her marriage, she became an astringent literary critic. However, she is best remembered as the elder sister and collaborator of Jane Taylor. Family The Taylor sisters were part of an extensive literary family, daughters of the engraver Isaac Taylor of Ongar and the writer Ann Taylor. Ann was born in Islington and lived with her family at first in London and later in Lavenham, Suffolk, in Colchester, and briefly in Ongar. The sisters' father, Isaac Taylor, and her grandfather were both engravers. Her father later became an educational pioneer and Independent minister, writing a number of instructional books for the young. Their mother, Mrs (Ann Martin) Taylor (1757–1830) wrote seven works of moral and religious advice in many respects liberal for their time, two of them ficti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Taylor (actress)
Ann Taylor (born 1 November 1936 in Stafford, Staffordshire) is an actress, hostess and singer who appeared on British television in the 1950s and 1960s. Life Taylor attended a Hertfordshire stage school while a teenager. Soon she made her professional stage debut in the pantomime The Sleeping Beauty at Salisbury. After stage school, she appeared in a summer show at Folkestone. Career Taylor was a member of a TV dancing troupe Toppers. Then she came in the West End of London for work in cabaret. She was engaged as the NAAFI girl in series ''The Army Game'' (1957-1961), and this led to film and television work, including '' The Avenger'' episode "The Frighteners" in which she played Sir Thomas Weller's secretary. In 1959 she did a season of repertory at Cheltenham. For six weeks from September to December 1959 she was relief presenter, along with Christopher Trace, on the BBC children's programme ''Blue Peter'' for an absent Leila Williams. Family Taylor is the daughter of an arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Taylor (newscaster)
Ann Taylor (born April 27, 1936, in Johnson City, Tennessee) is a newscaster who reported for National Public Radio (NPR), contributing to ''All Things Considered'' from 1989 to 2011. Her questions at presidential press conferences always started with "This is Ann Taylor" in her signature voice. Biography In 1949, Taylor and her family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee as her father was appointed to become a federal judge by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. She graduated from West High School and Chatham Hall. She graduated from Chatham Hall and attended Sweet Briar College, before transferring to and graduating from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where she majored in English and minored in history. She was a newscaster for WATE in Knoxville and WTOP in Washington, D.C., prior to joining NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment divis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor Of Bolton
Winifred Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton, (born 2 July 1947) is a British politician and life peer who served as Minister for International Defence and Security from 2008 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton West from 1974 to 1983 and for Dewsbury from 1987 to 2005. Early life and education Born in 1947, Taylor attended Bolton School and the University of Bradford, where she graduated with a BSc degree in Politics and History in 1969.Ann Taylor at Bradford.ac . Retrieved 27 July 2016 Political career After contesting Bolton West in |
Ann Bonfoey Taylor
Ann Bonfoey Taylor (3 December 1910 – 28 October 2007) was an American aviator, flight instructor and fashion designer. Early life Taylor was born in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, U.S. to a wealthy family which owned a pharmaceutical and dye manufacturing company, Putnam Dyes. She grew up in Quincy, Illinois, with three brothers. When she was six years old her father introduced her to flying in an open cockpit biplane, and when she was 12 he hired an instructor to teach her to fly. Adult life When Taylor was 18, in 1928, she moved to Vermont, where she took up snow skiing and earned a place on the 1940 Olympic Ski team for the United States. Unfortunately the games were cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II. She also played competitive tennis and competed at Wimbledon, England. In 1941, Taylor enrolled at the University of Vermont as an aviation student and earned her commercial flight instructor's license, and after the U.S. became involved in the war she worked as a tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Taylor (netball Administrator)
Evelyn Anne Taylor is a former New Zealand netball administrator, coach and umpire. From 1978 to 1987 she was president of Netball New Zealand and between 1989 and 1999 she was vice-president and president of the International Netball Federation. Early life Taylor attended Waitaki Girls' High School in Oamaru, the largest town in the North Otago region, on the South Island of New Zealand. She obtained a diploma in physical education at the University of Otago in 1958, where she captained the university netball club and was on the university sports council. After graduating, she taught physical education at the Hamilton Girls' High School in Hamilton on the North Island, and volunteered at Hamilton YWCA. Netball administration Taylor became a certified netball coach and umpire. She was an umpire for the first televised netball test match in New Zealand in 1969. In 1978 she was appointed as president of Netball New Zealand, a position she held until 1987. During her tenure the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netball And The Olympic Movement
Netball has never been played at the Summer Olympics, but its federation has been recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), since 1995 after a twenty-year period of lobbying. The netball community sees netball's absence at the Olympic Games as a hindrance to the global growth of the game, depriving it of media attention and funding. The IOC requires a high geographical scope for inclusion in the Olympics (played by men in 75 countries and by women in 40), but netball is mostly played in Commonwealth countries. When the IOC recognized netball's federation, it opened up sources of funds that the global netball community had not been able to access before, including the (IOC), national Olympic committees and sports organisations, and state and federal governments. Women's sport at the Olympics According to Dyer in 1982, exclusion of netball from the Summer Olympics is part of the historical pattern of the slow growth and gradual acceptance of women's sports. Women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Taylor (netball Player)
Anne Taylor (née Downey; born 23 October 1953) is a former netball player who represented New Zealand on three occasions, including in the 1975 World Netball Championships. Early life Anne Taylor attended Matamata College in Matamata in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island and then obtained a diploma in teaching of commerce and physical education from the Auckland Teachers' College, later known as the Auckland College of Education and now part of the University of Auckland. Netball career Taylor had two elder sisters, Claire and Faye, who were both netball players, and she followed in their footsteps. She played for the Arahi netball team in Auckland at the age of 16 and then joined the Auckland team. While playing for Auckland she was selected for the North Island team to play the South Island. She was then chosen in 1974 for the New Zealand Under-24 team, which toured England and Australia and was the first New Zealand team to be coached by Dame Lois Muir. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Inc
Ann Inc. is an American group of specialty apparel retail chain stores for women. The company headquartered in New York City and currently operates as a subsidiary of Ascena Retail Group. The stores offer classic-styled suits, separates, dresses, shoes and accessories. The brand is marketed under five divisions: Ann Taylor, Loft, Lou & Grey, Ann Taylor Factory, and Loft Outlet. History Richard Liebeskind, the founder of Ann Taylor, opened his first Ann Taylor store in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1954. "Ann Taylor" was the name of a best-selling dress at Liebeskind's father's store. Both the best-selling dress and the name ''Ann Taylor'' were given by the father to his son, Richard Liebeskind, for good luck. Liebeskind decided to go with the name Ann Taylor because ''Ann'' was considered a very New England name, and ''Taylor'' evoked the image of tailored clothing. The name supposedly created the ideal identity of classic women's apparel. In May 1991, the company completed an in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Taylor Allen
Ann Taylor Allen is a professor of German history at the University of Louisville. Allen is the author of four books and more than twenty articles/reviews in peer-reviewed journals. She has a BA from Bryn Mawr College (1965, Magna cum laude), studied at the University of Hamburg, Germany with a Fulbright Fellowship, received an MA in 1967 from Harvard University and earned a PhD from Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ... in 1974. Books *''Satire and Society in Wilhelmine Germany: Simplicissimus and Kladderadatsch, 1890–1914.'' Lexington, Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky), 1984. *''Feminism and Motherhood in Germany, 1800–1914.'' New Brunswick, NJ (Rutgers University Press), 1991. *''Feminismus und Mütterlichkeit in Deutschland, 1800–1914 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Taylor (other)
Annie Taylor may refer to: * Annie Edson Taylor (1838–1921), first American to ride Niagara Falls in a barrel *Annie Taylor Hyde (1849–1909), American Mormon leader and Utah pioneer *Annie Royle Taylor Hannah Royle Taylor (7 October 1855 – 9 September 1922), known as Annie Royle Taylor, was an English explorer and Evangelical missionary to China. She was the first Western woman known to have visited Tibet. She attempted to reach the "forb ... (1855–1922), British evangelist to China and Tibetan explorer See also * Ann Taylor (other) {{hndis, Taylor, Annie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
