Romantic

Jane Taylor

1783–1824


Jane Taylor (1783–1824) was an English poet and prose writer, best known for the verses for children that she wrote with her sister Ann. Her poem "The Star", in Rhymes for the Nursery (1806), is the source of "Twinkle, twinkle, little star".

She lived most of her life at Ongar, in Essex, where she died at the age of forty.

  1. The Violet
  2. The Philosopher's Scales
  3. Good Night
  4. Morning
  5. The Star

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