Ida Alice Ashworth Taylor (1847–1929) was an English novelist and biographer. Ida Taylor was the daughter of the playwright Henry Taylor and Alice Spring Rice, daughter of

Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, (8 February 17907 February 1866) was a British Whig politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839. Background Spring Rice was born into a notable Anglo-Irish famil ...

. A Catholic convert, Taylor wrote for periodicals including ''

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'' and ''

The Nineteenth Century ''The Nineteenth Century'' was a British monthly literary magazine founded in 1877 by James Knowles. It is regarded by historians as 'one of the most important and distinguished monthlies of serious thought in the last quarter of the nineteent ...

''. 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".'Miss Ida Ashworth Taylor', ''

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'', 22 October 1929 She died at her home in Wootton Wood in the

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Works

Novels

* ''Venus's Doves'', 3 vols., London: Hurst and Blackett, 1884 * ''Snow in Harvest, 3 vols., London, 1885 * ''Allegiance: a Novel'', 2 vols., London: R. Bentley, 1886 * (with U. Ashworth Taylor, her sister) ''A Social Heretic'', London: Hurst and Blackett, 1889 * ''Vice Valentine'', London: Ward and Downey, 1890

Non-fiction

* (ed. and abridged) ''The life of Queen Elizabeth'' by Agnes Strickland, 1900. * ''The Silver Legend: Saints for Children'', St. Louis: B. Herder, 1902. * ''Life of Sir Walter Raleigh'', London: Methuen, 1902. * ''The life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, 1763-1798'', London: Hutchinson & Co., 1903. * ''Revolutionary types'', London: Duckworth and Co., 1904. With an introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. * ''The life of Queen Henrietta Maria'', London: Hutchinson & Co., 1905. * ''Queen Hortense and her friends, 1783-1837'', London: Hutchinson, 1907. 2 vols. * ''Lady Jane Grey and Her Times, London: Hutchinson, 1908. * ''The cardinal democrat, Henry Edward Manning'', London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1908. * (ed.) ''The maxims of Madame Swetchine'', London: Burns & Oates, 1908. * ''Robert Southwell, S.J.: priest and poet'', London: Sands, 1908. * ''Christina of Sweden'', London: Hutchinson, 1909. * ''The making of a king'', London: Hutchinson & Co., 1910. * ''Life of Madame Roland'', 1911. * ''The life of James IV'', London: Hutchinson & Co., 1913. With an introduction by Sir George Douglas, Bart. * ''The tragedy of an army: La Vendée in 1793'', London: Hutchinson & Co., 1913. * ''Joan of Arc; soldier and saint'', Edinburgh: Sands & Co., 1920.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Ida Ashworth 1847 births 1929 deaths English women novelists English biographers Converts to Roman Catholicism Place of birth missing People from New Milton English women non-fiction writers Women biographers