Barbara Taylor (historian)

Barbara Taylor
FRHistS
Born
Barbara Gold Taylor[1]

(1950-04-11) 11 April 1950
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Other nameBarbara G. Taylor
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Feminist Theory and Practice of the Owenite Socialist Movement in Britain, 1820–45 (1980)
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
Institutions

Barbara Gold Taylor 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.[2]

She was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.[3] 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.[2]

She has received research grants and fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust,[2] the Nuffield Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation,[4] the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Wellcome Trust.[5]

Taylor has written a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, the early English feminist philosopher.[6] She spoke about her in 2009 at Newington Green Unitarian Church as part of the 250th anniversary of Wollstonecraft's birth.[7][8]

With the psychologist Adam Phillips, Taylor is the co-author of On Kindness (2009).[9][10][11] Taylor's memoir The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times, describing her years at Friern Hospital, was published in 2014.[12][13] It was a finalist for the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize.[14][3]

References

  1. ↑ Taylor, Barbara (2015). The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times. University of Chicago Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-226-27392-1. I am Barbara Gold Taylor (after my mother's maiden name, Goldenberg).
  2. 1 2 3 "Professor Barbara Taylor". Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  3. 1 2 Taylor, Barbara (26 February 2015). "RBC Taylor Prize: An Interview With Author Barbara Taylor". HuffPost. Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  4. ↑ "Barbara G. Taylor". Guggenheim Fellowship. Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  5. ↑ Taylor, Barbara (20 December 2018). "Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  6. ↑ Hawley, Judith (4 October 2003). "The stroppier the better". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  7. ↑ Gruner, Peter (17 April 2009). "Festival for 'first feminist'". Islington Tribune.
  8. ↑ "Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mary Wollstonecraft, 'The Mother of Feminism'!". womensgrid archive. 21 April 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  9. ↑ Stevenson, Peter (29 July 2009). "Easy to Be Hard". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  10. ↑ Warnock, Mary (11 January 2009). "Humanity's gift that keeps on giving". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  11. ↑ King, Ed (4 January 2009). "On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  12. ↑ Armstrong, Laura (5 March 2015). "Barbara Taylor shares story of her 'madness' in memoir". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  13. ↑ Levingston, Suzanne Allard (28 April 2015). "Historian recollects the demons of her own past in 'The Last Asylum'". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  14. ↑ "Plum Johnson Wins the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize for They Left Us Everything". Newswire. 2 March 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2026.


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