Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, novelist, musician, and cultural figure. Alternative signature: U. Ashworth Taylor. Born in London. Daughter of Sir Henry Taylor, a poet and civil servant, and Theodosia Alice Spring-Rice, daughter of Lord Monteagle. Acquainted with literary and artistic figures including Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dodgson, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Never got married and shared a home in Montpelier Square for thirty years with her sister Ida, where they hosted literary circles. Her seven novels include titles such as Wayfarers: A Novel (1886), The King’s Favourite (1892), and Nets for the Wind (1899). Biographical information: At the Circulating Library. (NM)