April 7, 1795, New Buck­en­ham, Nor­folk, Eng­land.

Cir­ca Feb­ru­a­ry 1872, Pan­cras, Lon­don, Middlesex, Eng­land.

Emily was the daugh­ter of Sam­u­el Tay­lor or New Buck­en­ham, Nor­folk, niece of hymn­ist John Tay­lor of Nor­wich, and great-grand­daugh­ter of He­bra­ist Dr. John Tay­lor. She wrote num­er­ous child­ren’s stor­ies, main­ly his­tor­ic­al, and var­i­ous works of in­struct­ion and de­scrip­tive na­tur­al his­to­ry, and con­trib­ut­ed to Mag­net Stor­ies (1860, etc.) and Rain­bow Stor­ies (1870, etc.). Her works in­clude:

• Letters to a Child on Mar­i­time Dis­cov­e­ry, 1820
• Vision of Las Cas­as, and Other Po­ems, 1825
• Poetical Il­lus­tra­tions of Pass­ag­es of Script­ure, 1826
• Sabbath Re­cre­a­tions, 1826 (ed­it­or)
• Tales of the Sax­ons, 1832
• Tales of the Eng­lish, 1833
• Memoir of Sir T. Moore, 1834
• The Boy and the Birds, 1835
• Flowers and Fruit in Old Eng­lish Gar­dens, 1836 (ed­it­or)

• Julian, p. 1117

1. Come to the House of Pray­er
2. God of the Chang­ing Year
3. Gospel Is the Light, The
   • It Is the One True Light
4. Here, Lord, When at Thy Ta­ble Met
5. If Love, the No­blest, Pur­est, Best
6. O Fa­ther, Thou the Anx­ious Fear
7. O Here, If Ev­er, God of Love
8. O Not for These Alone I Pray
9. O Source of Good! Around Me Spread
10. Thus Shalt Thou Love the Al­mighty God
11. Truly the Light of Morn Is Sweet
12. When Sum­mer Suns their Ra­di­ance Fling
13. Who Shall Be­hold the King of Kings?
14. Who That o’er Ma­ny a Bar­ren Part