Ida Alice Ashworth Taylor (1847–1929) was an English novelist and biographer.
Ida Taylor was the daughter of the playwright
Henry Taylor and Alice Spring Rice, daughter of
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle. A Catholic convert, Taylor wrote for periodicals including ''
The Dublin Review
''The Dublin Review'' is a quarterly magazine that publishes essays, reportage, autobiography, travel writing, criticism and fiction. It was launched in December 2000 by Brendan Barrington, who remains the editor and publisher, assisted by Nora ...
'' and ''
The Nineteenth Century''. For most of her adult life she lived with her younger sister, Una, in
Montpelier Square
Montpelier Square is a residential garden square in Knightsbridge, London, administratively in the City of Westminster. The homes were built in the 19th century and are of brick construction partly covered by stucco. All of the buildings facing i ...
in London. The pair "conducted a literary salon, of which the characteristic notes were intellectual interest and Irish warm-heartedness".
['Miss Ida Ashworth Taylor', '' The Times'', 22 October 1929]
She died at her home in
Wootton Wood in the
New Forest.
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Works
Novels
* ''Venus's Doves'', 3 vols., London: Hurst and Blackett, 1884
* ''Snow in Harvest, 3 vols., London, 1885
* ''Allegiance: a Novel'', 2 vols., London: R. Bentley, 1886
* (with U. Ashworth Taylor, her sister) ''A Social Heretic'', London: Hurst and Blackett, 1889
* ''Vice Valentine'', London: Ward and Downey, 1890
Non-fiction
* (ed. and abridged) ''The life of Queen Elizabeth'' by Agnes Strickland
Agnes Strickland (18 July 1796 – 8 July 1874) was an English historical writer and poet. She is particularly remembered for her ''Lives of the Queens of England'' (12 vols, 1840–1848).
Biography
The daughter of Thomas Strickland and his wi ...
, 1900.
* ''The Silver Legend: Saints for Children'', St. Louis: B. Herder, 1902.
* ''Life of Sir Walter Raleigh'', London: Methuen, 1902.
* ''The life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, 1763-1798'', London: Hutchinson & Co., 1903.
* ''Revolutionary types'', London: Duckworth and Co., 1904. With an introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (24 May 1852 – 20 March 1936) was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP); the first ever socialist member of the Parliament of the United Ki ...
.
* ''The life of Queen Henrietta Maria'', London: Hutchinson & Co., 1905.
* ''Queen Hortense and her friends, 1783-1837'', London: Hutchinson, 1907. 2 vols.
* ''Lady Jane Grey and Her Times, London: Hutchinson, 1908.
References
External links
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1847 births
1929 deaths
English women novelists
English biographers
Converts to Roman Catholicism
Place of birth missing
People from New Milton
English women non-fiction writers
Women biographers