{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Ida Alice Ashworth Taylor''' (1847–1929) was an English novelist and biographer.<ref>{{ODNBweb|id=46564|title=Taylor, Ida Alice Ashworth|first=Christine|last=Palumbo-De Simone}}</ref>
Ida Taylor was the daughter of the playwright [[Henry Taylor (dramatist)|Henry Taylor]] and Alice Spring Rice, daughter of [[Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle]]. A Catholic convert, Taylor wrote for periodicals including ''[[The Dublin Review]]'' and ''[[The Nineteenth Century]]''.<ref>''The Catholic who's who & yearbook'', 1910.</ref> 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".<ref name=TimesObit>'Miss Ida Ashworth Taylor', ''[[The Times]]'', 22 October 1929</ref>
She died at her home in [[Wootton Wood]] in the [[New Forest]].<ref name=TimesObit/>
==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.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review: ''Lady Jane Grey and Her Times'' by I. A. Taylor|journal=[[Athenaeum (British magazine)|The Athenaeum]]|number=4197|pages=409–410|date=April 4, 1908|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSI5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA409|last1=Buckingham|first1=James Silk|last2=Sterling|first2=John|last3=Maurice|first3=Frederick Denison|last4=Stebbing|first4=Henry|last5=Dilke|first5=Charles Wentworth|last6=Hervey|first6=Thomas Kibble|last7=Dixon|first7=William Hepworth|last8=MacColl|first8=Norman|last9=Rendall|first9=Vernon Horace|last10=Murry|first10=John Middleton}}</ref> * ''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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