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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 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.[2] 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".[3] She died at her home in Wootton Wood in the New Forest.[3] WorksNovels- 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.[4]
- 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.
References1. ^{{ODNBweb|id=46564|title=Taylor, Ida Alice Ashworth|first=Christine|last=Palumbo-De Simone}}
2. ^The Catholic who's who & yearbook, 1910.
3. ^1 'Miss Ida Ashworth Taylor', The Times, 22 October 1929
4. ^{{cite journal|title=Review: Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by I. A. Taylor|journal=The Athenaeum|number=4197|pages=409–410|date=April 4, 1908|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSI5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA409}}
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