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    Ann Taylor (poet)

    English poet, critic and children's writer, –

    Ann Gilbert (née Taylor; 30 January – 20 December ) was an English poet and literary critic. She gained lasting popularity in her youth as a writer of verse for children. In the years up to her marriage, she became an astringent literary critic. However, she is best remembered as the elder sister and collaborator of Jane Taylor.

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    The Taylor sisters were part of an extensive literary family, daughters of the engraverIsaac Taylor of Ongar and the writer Ann Taylor.[1] Ann was born in Islington and lived with her family at first in London and later in Lavenham, Suffolk, in Colchester, and briefly in Ongar. The sisters' father, Isaac Taylor, and her grandfather were both engravers. Her father later became an educational pionjär and Independent minister, writing a number of instructional books for the young. Their mother, Mrs (Ann Martin) Taylor (–) wrote seven works of moral and religiou

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    Jane Taylor (September 23, −April 13, ), was an English poet. She wrote the words for the song Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star in at age

    Jane Taylor lived in Colchester, England. She is remembered as a poet, hymn writer and children's author and, along with her older sister Ann, was responsible for writing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (). Prior to this they published the collection Original Poems for Infant Minds in Hymns for Infant Minds followed in Their work contained a gentle piety and often provided warnings about behaviour to their young readers.

    Jane Taylor died from cancer.

    It is speculated that the character of Jane Taylor (Kipleigh Brown) in Star Trek: Enterprise, who suffered a tragic death at a young age in space, was named for this poet.

    Given name: Jane; Family name: Taylor; Birth date: 23 September ; Death date: 13 April Nationality: English; Family relations; sister: Ann Taylor (poet); Cause of death: breast cancer; Buried at: Ongar chur
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    Jane Taylor (poet)

    English poet and novelist (–)

    Jane Taylor

    Born()23 September
    London, England
    Died13 April () (aged&#;40)
    Ongar, Essex, England
    Resting placeEssex, England
    OccupationPoet, novelist
    LanguageEnglish
    Period–s
    Literary movementRomanticism
    Notable works“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
    RelativesAnn Taylor (sister)
    Isaac Taylor (brother)
    Canon Isaac Taylor (nephew)

    Jane Taylor (23 September &#;&#; 13 April ) was an English poet and novelist best known for the lyrics of the widely known "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".[1] The sisters Jane and Ann Taylor and their authorship of various works have often been confused, partly because their early ones were published together. Ann Taylor's son, Josiah Gilbert, wrote in her biography, "Two little poems – 'My Mother,' and 'Twinkle, twinkle, little Star' – are perhaps more frequently quoted than any; the first, a lyric of life, was by Ann, the second, of