Ida Ashworth Taylor

Ida Alice Ashworth Taylor (1847–1929) was an English novelist and biographer.[1]

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 and The Nineteenth Century.[2] For most of her adult life she lived with her younger sister, Una, in Montpelier Square in London. The pair "conducted a literary salon, of which the characteristic notes were intellectual interest and Irish warm-heartedness".[3]

She died at her home in Wootton Wood in the New Forest.[3]

Works

Novels

Non-fiction

References

  1. Palumbo-De Simone, Christine. "Taylor, Ida Alice Ashworth". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/46564. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. The Catholic who's who & yearbook, 1910.
  3. 1 2 'Miss Ida Ashworth Taylor', The Times, 22 October 1929
  4. "Review: Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by I. A. Taylor". The Athenaeum (4197): 409–410. April 4, 1908.
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