Barbara Taylor (historian)

{{Short description|Canadian-born historian based in the United Kingdom}}

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Barbara Gold Taylor {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRHistS}} (born 11 April 1950) is a Canadian-born historian based in the United Kingdom, specialising in the Enlightenment, gender studies and the history of subjectivity. She is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London.{{r|qmul}}

She was born and raised in Western Canada. In 1971, she was awarded her first degree in political thought from the University of Saskatchewan. She then moved to London, where she gained an MSc in the same subject at the London School of Economics, followed by a PhD in history at the University of Sussex. She taught history at the University of East London from 1993 until 2012 and then moved to Queen Mary, University of London, as joint professor of the schools of English & Drama, and History.{{cite web|url=https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/taylorb.html|title=Professor Barbara Taylor, Hons BA (Saskatchewan), MSc (London School of Economics), D Phil (Sussex), Fellow Royal Historical Society|publisher= School of English and Drama {{!}} Queen Mary, University of London|access-date=5 January 2018}}

She has received research grants and fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the Nuffield Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation (1996), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Wellcome Trust.

Taylor has written a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, the early English feminist and republican,{{r|guardian|additional}} and continues to speak on her life. She spoke about her in 2009 at Newington Green Unitarian Church as part of the 250th anniversary of Wollstonecraft's birth.{{cite news|url=http://www.thecnj.com/islington/2009/041709/inews041709_11.html|title=Festival for 'first feminist'|first=Peter|last=gruner|newspaper=Islington Tribune|date=17 April 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.womensgrid.org.uk/archive/2009/04/21/celebrating-the-250th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-mary-wollstonecraft-the-mother-of-feminism/|title=Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mary Wollstonecraft, 'The Mother of Feminism'!|website=womensgrid archive|date=21 April 2009|access-date=9 October 2022}}

With the psychologist Adam Phillips, Taylor is the co-author of On Kindness (2009).{{r|nyt|guardian2|times}}

Taylor's memoir The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times, describing her years at Friern Hospital, was published in 2014.{{r|star|telegraph|wapo|artla}}

It was a finalist for the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize.{{r|taylor}}

References

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Additional reviews of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination:

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| date = January 2003

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{{cite journal

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| series = 3 | volume = 13| issue = 2

| title = Review of English Feminists and Their Opponents in the 1780s: Unsex'd and Proper Females, by William Stafford, and Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination, by Barbara Taylor

| journal = Literature & History

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{{cite journal

| last = Mellor | first = Ann K.

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{{cite journal

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| journal = Canadian Woman Studies

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| pages = 405–410

| title = Women and Politics

| volume = 39

| doi=10.1353/ecs.2006.0012| s2cid = 154792694

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{{cite journal

| last = Kirkley | first = Laura

| date = June 2008

| doi = 10.1017/s0018246x08006869

| issue = 2

| pages = 565–566

| journal = The Historical Journal

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| volume = 51}}

Additional reviews of The Last Asylum:

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| last = Zachary | first = Anne

| date = October 2014

| doi = 10.1111/bjp.12109

| issue = 4

| journal = British Journal of Psychotherapy

| pages = 537–543

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| last = Frosh | first = Stephen

| date = March 2015

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| pages = 221–225

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{{cite journal

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{{cite journal

| last = Smith | first = Leonard

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| issue = 4

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{{cite journal

| last = Tillman | first = Jane G.

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| volume = 34

| year = 2017}}

{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/04/featuresreviews.guardianreview|newspaper=The Guardian|title=The stroppier the better: Judith Hawley finds Mary Wollstonecraft's reputation enhanced by her collected letters and Barbara Taylor's study, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination|first=Judith|last=Hawley|date=3 October 2003}}

{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/11/on-kindness-review|newspaper=The Guardian|title=Humanity's gift that keeps on giving: A history of kindness offers an absorbing overview of a defining attribute, finds Mary Warnock|date=10 January 2009|first=Mary|last=Warnock}}

{{Cite web|url=http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/staff/profile/4575-professor-barbara-taylor|title=Professor Barbara Taylor|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=The School of History, Queen Mary, University of London|access-date=2016-07-17}}

{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Easy to Be Hard|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/books/review/Stevenson-t.html|first=Peter|last=Stevenson|date=29 July 2009}}

{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2015/03/05/barbara-taylor-shares-story-of-her-madness-in-memoir.html|newspaper=Toronto Star|title=Barbara Taylor shares story of her 'madness' in memoir: Book, which was nominated for Charles Taylor Prize, also offers a scathing critique of the mental health system in the western world of today|first=Laura|last=Armstrong|date=5 March 2015}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.thecharlestaylorprize.ca/2015/winner_15.asp|title=The winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize|publisher=Charles Taylor Foundation|access-date=2017-12-28}}

{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/10625877/I-was-a-loony-a-nutter.-I-was-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon.html|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|title='I was a loony, a nutter. I was on the far side of the moon': Barbara Taylor's memoir of her time in Britain's last Victorian asylum argues that mental health patients deserve better care today|first=Cole|last=Moreton|date=9 February 2014}}

{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/on-kindness-by-adam-phillips-and-barbara-taylor-mndrk2h8nzw|first=Ed|last=King|newspaper=The Sunday Times|date=4 January 2009|title=On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor}}

{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/a-historian-recollects-the-demons-of-her-own-past-in-the-last-asylum/2015/04/28/e6baa3ac-e84e-11e4-aae1-d642717d8afa_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|title=Historian recollects the demons of her own past in The Last Asylum|first=Suzanne Allard|last=Levingston|date=April 28, 2015}}

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External links

[http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/staff/profile/4575-professor-barbara-taylor Barbara Taylor] profile at the Queen Mary college of the University of London

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