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Ann Taylor

  • “Who ran to help me when I fell, / And would some pretty story tell, / Or kiss the place to make it well? / My Mother.”

    • Ann Taylor,
    • "My Mother," in Jane Taylor and Her Sisters, Original Poems for Infant Minds ()

  • “... wilful waste, depend upon't, / Brings, almost always, woeful want.”

    • Ann Taylor,
    • "The Pin," in Iona and Peter Opie, eds., The Oxford Book of Children's Verse ()

Ann Taylor, English children's writer

(1782 - 1866)