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Emily Taylor (1795-1872)

Description

contributor to MP (1859-1869), sometimes as 'T.'

Biography

A school teacher, partly deaf, she was born a Unitarian, and joined the Church of England under the influence of F. D. Maurice. See ‘New Year’s Words from the Editor’ MP 3s 11 (January 1886), 41: ‘Long ago, in the earlier agest of the ‘Monthly Packet,’ a New Year’s address used to come with unfailing briskness, force, and truth, from the pen of Miss Emily Taylor, then known to us only by her initial T.’