The Family Pen: Volume 2
Memorials, Biographical and Literary, of the Taylor Family of Ongar

A two-volume compilation of the essays and verse of three generations of the Taylor family, published in 1867.

Isaac Taylor (Author)

9781108076272, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 November 2014

430 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.54 kg

Isaac Taylor (1787–1865) was known as Isaac Taylor of Stanford Rivers, to distinguish him from his father, Isaac Taylor of Ongar, engraver and dissenting minister. He, his brother Jefferys, and their sisters Ann and Jane, were all writers, and their mother was the well-known 'Mrs Taylor of Ongar', some of whose books are also reissued in this series. The younger Isaac felt drawn to the Church of England, and made a name for himself with studies of the Church Fathers and the classics (he is said to have coined the word 'patristic'). This two-volume collection of writings by three generations of the Taylor family was compiled and published in 1867 by the Isaac Taylor of the next generation. Volume 2 contains essays and verses by the four siblings, their father Isaac, and a cousin, Jemima, of which the most notable is the long short story 'Display' by Jane Taylor.

1. Display
2. Recreation
3. The discontented pendulum
4. The tolling bell
5. Temper, or the two old ladies
6. The shipwrecked lascar
7. Ralph Richards, the miser
8. The iron box
9. Phebe's visit
10. The squire's pew
11. The little biographers
12. The goose
13. How it strikes a stranger
14. A story
15. The private study
16. An enigma
17. The wise man
18. The clever fool
19. The song of the tea-kettle
20. A person of consequence
21. Remonstrance to time
22. Complaint of the dying year
23. Lines addressed to her brother, Isaac Taylor
List of works by the Taylor family.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]