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Lifetime: 1783 - 1824 Passed: ≈ 200 years ago

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Jane Taylor

Books by Jane Taylor

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Star

To take you back to your childhood, LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 recordings of The Star by Jane Taylor. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 24, 2013.

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Rhymes for the Nursery

This early 19th-century children's poetry collection by Jane and Ann Taylor is little-known today, but contains the original version of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, known then as just The Star. Also included are poems about why you shouldn't kill...

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Little Ann and Other Poems

A collection of poems written for naughty children and intending to show them better paths.

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Eyes and No Eyes and Other Stories

Whatever will stimulate the observing tendencies of the young cannot but be of value to them. "Eyes and No Eyes" does this in a delightful way. The story is so natural that the child is wrapped up in it, and so it makes a deep impress upon him. Much...