page_title: Ann Taylor (writer, born 1757)
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Ann Taylor (writer, born 1757) / Life
caption_attribution_description: The Taylor Family (Martin Taylor; Ann Taylor; Jefferys Taylor; Isaac Taylor; Isaac Taylor; Jane Taylor; Ann Taylor), by Isaac Taylor (died 1829), given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1900. See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have been confirmed as author died before 1939 according to the official death date listed by the NPG.
context_page_description: Ann Taylor or Ann Martin was a British writer. Her children were also notable writers and this included Ann and Jane Taylor.
context_section_description: Taylor was born in London in 1757. Her father, who died when she was a child, was an evangelical preacher. Her mother married again and her new siblings bullied her. She found respite writing satire and verse which gave her increased status among her school peers. Among those peers was Isaac Taylor and at Islington on 18 April 1781 she married him. They had eleven children and five survived to adulthood and to be noted writers.
  Ann born at Islington on 30 January 1782, who married Joseph Gilbert;
  Jane Taylor;
  two Isaacs who died in infancy;
  Isaac (1787–1865);
  Martin Taylor (1788–1867);
  Harriet, Eliza, and Decimus, who died in infancy;
  Jefferys;
  and Jemima (1798–1886), who married, on 14 August 1832, Thomas Herbert.
  Ann's daughters Ann and Jane were unusually allowed to publish their work. The Quaker publisher had considerable success with their anonymous work and Ann senior was encouraged to offer her own work and a collaboration with Jane.
  Taylor died and was buried in Ongar.
caption: The Taylor family, painted by their father
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