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​TAYLOR, JANE (1783–1824), writer for the young, the second daughter of Isaac Taylor (1759–1829) [q. v.] of Ongar, was born in Red Lion Street, London, on 23 Sept.

1783. Her constitution was delicate from the first, but upon the family removing to Suffolk in 1786 she took a new lease of life. Her vivacity as a child was great.

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She used to preach and recite for the amusement of the neighbours at Lavenham, and was ‘the spirited foremost in every youthful plan.’ Apart from a natural diffidence, however, she was protected from self-conceit by an abundant measure of common-sense.

The children concentrated a great deal of energy into the small amount of spare time that was allowed to them under their father's ​scheme of education. From a very early age Jane and her sister began imagining stories and writing plays and verses.

Her natural propensity to book-making was extraordinary, and from the age of eight or ni