Elizabeth Taylor (January 8, 1856 – March, 1932) was an American artist, journalist, botanist and traveller. 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 (ISBN 1-880654-11-3).
Elizabeth Taylor | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 8, 1856 Columbus, Ohio |
| Died | 1932 Vermont |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting, Journalist, Botanist |
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 birth as February 8, 1861[1][2]
She died at her cottage Wake Robin in Vermont, in 1932.
References
edit- Joensen, Jóan Pauli (2009). Pilot whaling in the Faroe Islands : history, ethnography, symbol. Tórshavn: Fróðskapur/Faroe University Press. pp. 42–43, 47. ISBN 9789991865256.
- Sjoholm, Barbara (2004). The pirate queen : in search of Grace O'Malley and other legendary women of the sea. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press. pp. 158–171. ISBN 978-1580051095.
- Watson, Catherine (15 May 2009). "Viking villages of Northern Europe: Islands in time". StarTribune. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
External links
edit- Works by Elizabeth Taylor at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Elizabeth Taylor at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- JAMES TAYLOR DUNN AND FAMILY: An Inventory of Their Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
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