Taylor, Mary (1817–1893)
Taylor, Mary (1817–1893)
English traveler. Born in Yorkshire, England, Feb 26, 1817; died in Gomersal, England, Mar 1, 1893; dau. of Joshua and Ann Tickell Taylor; attended boarding school in Roe Head, Mirfield; immigrated to New Zealand (1845); returned to England (1859).
A friend of Charlotte Brontë, journeyed to New Zealand to seek her fortune and temporarily found it as a shopkeeper; traveled, lectured, and wrote on behalf of women; protested a society that kept middle-class women from earning a living, and her anger informs her only novel Miss Miles: A Tale of Yorkshire Life Sixty Years Ago.
See also Women in World History.
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