# Ida Ashworth Taylor

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**Ida Alice Ashworth Taylor** (1847–1929) was an English novelist and biographer.[1]

Ida Taylor was the daughter of the playwright [Henry Taylor](/source/Henry_Taylor_(dramatist)) and Alice Spring Rice, daughter of [Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle](/source/Thomas_Spring_Rice%2C_1st_Baron_Monteagle). A Catholic convert, Taylor wrote for periodicals including *[The Dublin Review](/source/The_Dublin_Review)* and *[The Nineteenth Century](/source/The_Nineteenth_Century)*.[2] For most of her adult life she lived with her younger sister, Una, in [Montpelier Square](/source/Montpelier_Square) in London. The pair "conducted a literary salon, of which the characteristic notes were intellectual interest and Irish warm-heartedness".[3]

She died at her home in [Wootton Wood](/source/Wootton_Wood) in the [New Forest](/source/New_Forest).[3]

## Works

### Novels

- *Venus's Doves*, 3 vols., London: [Hurst and Blackett](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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.[4]

- *The cardinal democrat, Henry Edward Manning*, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1908.

- (ed.) *The maxims of Madame Swetchine*, London: [Burns & Oates](/source/Burns_%26_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.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Palumbo-De Simone, Christine. "Taylor, Ida Alice Ashworth". *[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography)* (online ed.). Oxford University Press. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1093/ref:odnb/46564](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F46564). (Subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/88/) access or [UK public library membership](https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public) required.)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** *The Catholic who's who & yearbook*, 1910.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-TimesObit_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-TimesObit_3-1) 'Miss Ida Ashworth Taylor', *[The Times](/source/The_Times)*, 22 October 1929

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Buckingham, James Silk; Sterling, John; Maurice, Frederick Denison; Stebbing, Henry; Dilke, Charles Wentworth; Hervey, Thomas Kibble; Dixon, William Hepworth; MacColl, Norman; Rendall, Vernon Horace; Murry, John Middleton (4 April 1908). ["Review: *Lady Jane Grey and Her Times* by I. A. Taylor"](https://books.google.com/books?id=XSI5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA409). *[The Athenaeum](/source/Athenaeum_(British_magazine))* (4197): 409–410.

## External links

- [Works by Ida Ashworth Taylor](https://librivox.org/author/12614) at [LibriVox](/source/LibriVox) (public domain audiobooks)

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