Emily Taylor was an English schoolmistress, poet, children's author, and hymnist.
11 Facts About Emily Taylor
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Emily Taylor wrote numerous tales for children, chiefly historical, along with books of instruction and some descriptive natural history.
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Emily Howson Taylor was born in 1795, in Banham, Norfolk.
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Emily Taylor was the daughter of Samuel Taylor, of New Buckenham, Norfolk, a niece of John Taylor, of Norwich, a hymn writer, and a great-granddaughter of Dr John Taylor, a Hebraist.
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Emily Taylor's brother Edgar Taylor was a writer and translator.
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Emily Taylor's mother died shortly after she was born, so that she was brought up by her father, five brothers, one sister and two aunts.
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When she moved with her father to nearby New Buckenham, she started a school for some 30 children, which laid emphasis on singing, partly because Taylor had become friendly with Sarah Ann Glover, a musical theorist who had developed the Norwich sol-fa system.
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Emily Taylor moved up to London in 1842, to live with a widowed sister and continued to teach.
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Emily Taylor wrote numerous historical tales, works of instruction for children, and popular biographies, including The Ball I Live On, or, Sketches of the Earth and Chronicles of an Old English Oak, or Sketches of English Life and History.
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Emily Taylor wrote many hymns that remained popular through the 19th century, including 14 contributed anonymously to a Unitarian hymnal published in 1818.
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Emily Taylor died on 11 March 1872 in St Pancras, London.