Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor (January 8, 1856 – March 8, 1932) was an American artist, journalist, botanist, and traveler. Her travel essays from Alaska, Canada, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway were published in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Atlantic Monthly, Forest and Stream and others. Some of her essays are published in The Far Islands and Other Cold Places.
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Elizabeth Taylor
- Name
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Born
- 8 January 1856
- Birthplace
- Columbus, Ohio
- Died
- 8 March 1932
- Place of death
- Rochester, Vermont
- Field
- Painting, journalism, botany
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- explorer · botanical illustrator · painter · journalist · botanist · artist
- Fields
- painting
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Elizabeth Taylor (January 8, 1856 – March 8, 1932) was an American artist, journalist, botanist, and traveler. Her travel essays from Alaska, Canada, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway were published in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Atlantic Monthly, Forest and Stream and others. Some of her essays are published in The Far Islands and Other Cold Places.
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Elizabeth Taylor (1856–1932) was an artist, botanical illustrator and botanist, among other activities, of American nationality. The artist was born in Columbus and died in Shelburne.
Elizabeth Taylor worked in Iceland, Mackenzie Delta and Norway and lived in Faroe Islands. Activity centred on painting.
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Whilst in Norway, Taylor had discovered two new species of flowers and two new species of insects. During World War I, she was marooned at Eiði in the Faroe Islands, where she was a probable influence on Faroese painting pioneer Niels Kruse. (The census in Eiði, Faroe Islands in 1916 gives her date of birth as February 8, 1861.) In July 1919, Taylor left the Faroe Islands and returned to the United States, choosing Vermont, as her stop. After thirty years of travel with no real home, in 1923, she settled down in a two-room cabin at the age of 64, which she had built on Wake Robin Farm, owned by her friend Blanche Dunham Hubbard. She died at her cottage Wake Robin in Rochester, Vermont, on March 8, 1932.
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• Name — Elizabeth Taylor • Born — 8 January 1856 • Birthplace — Columbus, Ohio • Died — 8 March 1932 • Place of death — Rochester, Vermont • Field — Painting, journalism, botany
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Elizabeth Taylor was born on 8 January 1856.
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Elizabeth Taylor died on 1 January 1932.
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- 1.Elizabeth Taylor, 1856 – 1932 Reid Hall. reidhall.globalcenters.columbia.edu.
- 2.Census Eiði 1916
- 3.page 5, line 6
- 4.Elizabeth Taylor, 1856 – 1932 Reid Hall. reidhall.globalcenters.columbia.edu.
- 5.Andra-Warner, Elle. Minnesota's Elizabeth Taylor: Victorian Adventurer on the Nipigon River. Northern Wilds Magazine. 2015-12-02.
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Elizabeth Taylor is recorded with the occupation botanical illustrator. Recorded as explorer, botanical illustrator, painter, journalist and botanist.
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