Ann Taylor (1782–1813)
Ann Gilbert (1813–1866)
1782–1866
Writer and poet. Daughter of Isaac Taylor, engraver, writer, and nonconformist minister, and his wife Ann Martin, children’s writer. Mother of Joseph Henry Gilbert. Trained as an engraver. With her sister, Jane Taylor (1783–1824), and other teenage girls, founded a literary circle, the Umbelliferous Society, in Colchester. Contributed poetry to periodicals, and collaborated with Jane on illustrated collections of poetry for children. Married a Congregational minister, Joseph Gilbert (1779–1852), in 1813. Her autobiography was published posthumously (A. Gilbert 1874).
Source
ODNB s.v. Taylor, Jane
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
