Born: April 7, 1795, New Buckenham, Norfolk, England.

Died: Cir­ca February 1872, Pancras, London, Middlesex, England.

Emily was the daugh­ter of Sam­u­el Tay­lor or New Buck­en­ham, Nor­folk, niece of hymn­ist John Tay­lor of Nor­wich, and great-grand­daugh­ter of He­bra­ist Dr. John Tay­lor. She wrote num­er­ous child­ren’s stor­ies, main­ly his­tor­ic­al, and var­i­ous works of in­struct­ion and de­scrip­tive na­tur­al his­to­ry, and con­trib­ut­ed to Mag­net Stor­ies (1860, etc.) and Rain­bow Stor­ies (1870, etc.). Her works in­clude:

• Letters to a Child on Mar­i­time Dis­cov­e­ry, 1820
• Vision of Las Cas­as, and Other Po­ems, 1825
• Poetical Il­lus­tra­tions of Pass­ag­es of Script­ure, 1826
• Sabbath Re­cre­a­tions, 1826 (ed­it­or)
• Tales of the Sax­ons, 1832
• Tales of the Eng­lish, 1833
• Memoir of Sir T. Moore, 1834
• The Boy and the Birds, 1835
• Flowers and Fruit in Old Eng­lish Gar­dens, 1836 (ed­it­or)

Sources

Hymns

1. Come to the House of Prayer
2. God of the Changing Year
3. Gospel Is the Light, The
   • It Is the One True Light
4. Here, Lord, When at Thy Table Met
5. If Love, the Noblest, Purest, Best
6. O Father, Thou the Anxious Fear
7. O Here, If Ever, God of Love
8. O Not for These Alone I Pray
9. O Source of Good! Around Me Spread
10. Thus Shalt Thou Love the Almighty God
11. Truly the Light of Morn Is Sweet
12. When Summer Suns their Radiance Fling
13. Who Shall Behold the King of Kings?
14. Who That O’er Many a Barren Part