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
Lyrics
- Come to the House of Prayer
- God of the Changing Year
- Gospel Is the Light, The
- Here, Lord, When at Thy Table Met
- If Love, the Noblest, Purest, Best
- O Father, Thou the Anxious Fear
- O Here, If Ever, God of Love
- O Not for These Alone I Pray
- O Source of Good! Around Me Spread
- Thus Shalt Thou Love the Almighty God
- Truly the Light of Morn Is Sweet
- When Summer Suns their Radiance Fling
- Who Shall Behold the King of Kings?
- Who That O’er Many a Barren Part