Barbara Taylor (writer)
Barbara Taylor may refer to: *Barbara Taylor (historian) (born c. 1950), Canadian-born historian in the United Kingdom *Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor (1943–1967), homicide victim *Barbara Austin Taylor (1891–1951), British sculptor * Barbara Nevins Taylor, American investigative journalist and journalism professor *Barbara Brown Taylor (born 1951), American Episcopal priest, professor and theologian See also *Barbara Taylor Bradford Barbara Taylor Bradford (born 10 May 1933) is a best-selling British-American novelist. Her debut novel, '' A Woman of Substance'', was published in 1979 and sold over 30 million copies worldwide. She wrote 39 novels, all bestsellers in Englan ...

Barbara Taylor (historian)
Barbara G. Taylor (born 1950) is a Canadian-born historian based in the United Kingdom, specialising in the Enlightenment, gender studies and the history of subjectivity. She is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. She was born and raised in Western Canada. In 1971, she was awarded her first degree in political thought from the University of Saskatchewan. She then moved to London, where she gained an MSc in the same subject at the London School of Economics, followed by a PhD in history at the University of Sussex. She taught history at the University of East London from 1993 until 2012 and then moved to Queen Mary, University of London, as joint professor of the schools of English & Drama, and History. She has received research grants and fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the Nuffield Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation (1996), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Wellcome Trust. Taylor has written a biography of Mary Wol ...
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Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor
Barbara Ann "Bobbie" Hackmann Taylor (September 12, 1943 – December 1967), also known as the "Tent Girl", was notable as an unidentified homicide victim for nearly 30 years after her body was found on May 17, 1968, near Georgetown, Kentucky. She was referred to as "Tent Girl" because of the material wrapped around her. On April 23, 1998, the Scott County Sheriff's Office announced that this victim had been identified. Hackmann Taylor, born in Illinois, was married and had an eight-month-old daughter when she went missing from her home in Lexington, Kentucky. Her late husband, George Earl Taylor, was a carnival worker and the prime suspect in the murder case. He did not file a missing person report but told her family that she had left him for another man. He died of cancer in October 1987. Because he was a prime suspect, Hackmann's family excluded his name when they commissioned a new tombstone for her gravesite. This gave her full name and dates and was added beneath ...
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Barbara Austin Taylor
Barbara Penson Austin Taylor (1891–1951) was a British sculptor. Biography Taylor was born in West Derby, a suburb of Liverpool, and studied in London at the Westminster School of Art, at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art and then at the British School in Rome. After studying stone carving techniques in the workshop of a monumental mason, Taylor established a studio in London, being based in Chelsea for a long period. She produced portrait heads, busts and figures in bronze, stone and plaster. Until a few years before her death, Taylor was a regular exhibitor with the Royal Academy in London and also with the London Group and the Society of Women Artists The Society of Women Artists (SWA) is a British art body dedicated to celebrating and promoting fine art created by women. It was founded as the Society of Female Artists (SFA) in about 1855, offering women artists the opportunity to exhibit and .... Manchester City Art Gallery holds examples of her work. References E ...
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Barbara Nevins Taylor
Barbara Nevins Taylor is an American investigative journalist, journalism professor, audiobook narrator and author. She serves as Acting Journalism Program Director at the City College of New York. Nevins Taylor is also founder of ''ConsumerMojo.com'', a website that provides information about consumer-sensitive issues. She has won awards for her reporting, and in addition to her television work has written articles about social justice, women and children for publications including ''The New York Times''. Early biography Barbara Nevins Taylor, née Segal, grew up in Laurelton, Queens, New York City, the first child of Juliet Beatrice, an elementary public school teacher, and Zelick Richard "Zeke" Segal, an actor, CBS television news executive, playwright and professor. Barbara studied acting at New York's High School of Performing Arts - later named LaGuardia High School - and worked in off-off Broadway productions. She graduated from The City College of New York in 1970 with ...
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Barbara Brown Taylor
Barbara Brown Taylor (born 1951) is an American Episcopal priest, academic, and author. In 2014, ''Time'' magazine placed her in its annual ''Time'' 100 list of most influential people in the world. Education and recognition Taylor was born on September 21, 1951, in Lafayette, Indiana. She did her undergraduate studies at Emory University where she graduated in 1973. She then went on to study at Yale Divinity School, where she graduated in 1976. She was ordained in 1984, and became the rector of Grace-Calvary Episcopal Church (Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta) in Clarkesville, Georgia, in 1992. She later left parish ministry and became a full-time professor at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia, and an adjunct professor of Christian spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. She taught world religions and exposed her mainly Christian students to other faiths so they could better understand how various groups worship. In 1996, she was named one of the t ...
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