Item Detail
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Gilbert, Ann Taylor (1782-1866)
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née Ann Taylor; A.; Mrs. Gilbert; Mrs. Ann Gilbert shared pseudonym with her sister: Several Young Persons
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children's writer, poet, miscellaneous writer, hymnist, illustrator, engraver, periodical contributor, memoirist
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English; born in Islington
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daughter of Ann Martin & Revd Isaac Taylor; wife of Revd Josiah or Joseph Gilbert; sister of Jane Taylor & Isaac Taylor (1787-1865)
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collaborated with Jane Taylor; Minor's Pocket Book; Youth's Magazine
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- Easy Poems for Little Children: A Selection from the Best Authors. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1866. (https://books.google.com/books?id=-6hXAAAAcAAJ&pg)
- Gleanings from the Sacred Poets, with Biographical Notices of the Authors. Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1882.
- Cushing, William. Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises. N.Y.: T. Y. Crowell & Company, [1867, 1885, etc.].
- Pitman, Emma Raymond. Lady Hymn Writers. London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1892.
- Whelan, Timothy. Nonconformist & Dissenting Women Writers, 1650-1850. (www.nonconformistwomenwriters1650-1850.com)
- Miller, Josiah. Singers and Songs of the Church: Being Biographical Sketches of the Church. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869. 2nd ed. (https://books.google.com/books?id=p-c-AAAAYAAJ&pg)
- The Encyclopedia of British Women Writers, 1998 revised & expanded edition.
- Minor British Poets, 1789-1918. Davis, California: The University of California, Davis, 1983-1984. Pts. I-IV.
- Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (http://orlando.cambridge.org/)
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- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. © Oxford University Press
- Reilly, Catherine. Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879: An Annotated Biobibliography. London: Mansell, 2000.
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• wrote "The Baby Dance" "The Little Girl that Beat Her Sister" "Crippled Child's Complaint" My Mother • collaborated in Hymns for Infant Minds Rhymes for the Nursery • contributed to Original Poems