Barbara Taylor (historian)

Barbara G. Taylor FRHistS (born 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.^[1]

Barbara Taylor FRHistS
Born	(1950-04-11) 11 April 1950 (age 72) Canada
Other names	Barbara G. Taylor
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Saskatchewan London School of Economics University of Sussex
Thesis	The Feminist Theory and Practice of the Owenite Socialist Movement in Britain, 1820–45 (1980)
Academic work
Discipline	History
Institutions	University of East London Queen Mary, University of London

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.^[2]

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.^[2]

Taylor has written a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, the early English feminist and republican,^[3][4] and continues to speak on her life, for example in 2009 at Newington Green Unitarian Church as part of the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of Wollstonecraft's birth.^[5][6]

With the psychologist Adam Phillips, Taylor is the co-author of On Kindness (2009).^[7][8][9] Taylor's memoir The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times, describing her years at Friern Hospital, was published in 2014.^{[10][11][12][13]} It was a finalist for the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize.^[14]

References

1. "Professor Barbara Taylor". The School of History, Queen Mary, University of London. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
2. "Professor Barbara Taylor, Hons BA (Saskatchewan), MSc (London School of Economics), D Phil (Sussex), Fellow Royal Historical Society". School of English and Drama | Queen Mary, University of London. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
3. Hawley, Judith (3 October 2003). "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". The Guardian.
4. Additional reviews of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination:
   • McCandless, Amy Thompson (January 2003). History: Reviews of New Books. 31 (4): 153–154. doi:10.1080/03612759.2003.10527500. S2CID 142584176.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Michiyo, Adachi (March 2004). "Review". Studies in English Literature. 45: 156–162.
   • Vega, Judith (Spring 2004). History of Political Thought. 25 (1): 161–163. JSTOR 26220192.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Johnson, Claudia L. (Summer 2004). Albion. 36 (2): 316–317. doi:10.2307/4054242. JSTOR 4054242.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Pedersen, Joyce Senders (August 2004). Canadian Journal of History. 39 (2): 388–390. doi:10.3138/cjh.39.2.388.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Offen, Karen (October 2004). The American Historical Review. 109 (4): 1311–1312. doi:10.1086/ahr/109.4.1311. JSTOR 10.1086/530885.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Connors, Clare (October 2004). History. 89 (4 (296)): 649–650. JSTOR 24427807.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Sales, Roger (November 2004). "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". Literature & History. 3. 13 (2): 104–107. doi:10.7227/LH.13.2.5.
   • Mellor, Ann K. (October 2004). "Feminist Debates in the 1790s". The Journal of British Studies. 43 (4): 519–524. doi:10.1086/421932.
   • Zook, Melinda (Spring 2005). The Historian. 67 (1): 170–171. JSTOR 24452937.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Thomson, Heidi (July 2005). The Modern Language Review. 100 (3): 789–790. JSTOR 3739157.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • McLauchlan, Laura (2005). "Review". Canadian Woman Studies. 24 (2–3): 194–196.
   • Lokke, Kari (2005). Keats–Shelley Journal. 54: 215–218. JSTOR 30213128.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Smith, Hilda L. (Spring 2006). "Women and Politics". New Feminist Work in Epistemology and Aesthetics. Eighteenth-Century Studies. 39 (3): 405–410. doi:10.1353/ecs.2006.0012. JSTOR 30053482. S2CID 154792694.
   • Kirkley, Laura (June 2008). The Historical Journal. 51 (2): 565–566. doi:10.1017/s0018246x08006869. JSTOR 20175177.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
5. gruner, Peter (17 April 2009). "Festival for 'first feminist'". Islington Tribune.
6. "Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mary Wollstonecraft, 'The Mother of Feminism'!". womensgrid archive. 21 April 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
7. Stevenson, Peter (29 July 2009). "Easy to Be Hard". The New York Times.
8. Warnock, Mary (10 January 2009). "Humanity's gift that keeps on giving: A history of kindness offers an absorbing overview of a defining attribute, finds Mary Warnock". The Guardian.
9. King, Ed (4 January 2009). "On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor". The Sunday Times.
10. Armstrong, Laura (5 March 2015). "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". Toronto Star.
11. Moreton, Cole (9 February 2014). "'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". The Daily Telegraph.
12. Levingston, Suzanne Allard (28 April 2015). "Historian recollects the demons of her own past in The Last Asylum". The Washington Post.
13. Additional reviews of The Last Asylum:
    • Zachary, Anne (October 2014). British Journal of Psychotherapy. 30 (4): 537–543. doi:10.1111/bjp.12109.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Frosh, Stephen (March 2015). The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 97 (1): 221–225. doi:10.1111/1745-8315.12298. S2CID 145319685.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Tyrer, Peter (December 2015). American Journal of Psychiatry. 172 (12): 1264. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15060767.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Silverman, Martin A. (October 2016). The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 85 (4): 990–996. doi:10.1002/psaq.12114. PMID 27704568. S2CID 35601436.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Smith, Leonard (November 2016). History of Psychiatry. 27 (4): 505–506. doi:10.1177/0957154x16662552. S2CID 42382847.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Tillman, Jane G. (2017). Psychoanalytic Psychology. 34 (1): 134–136. doi:10.1037/pap0000087.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
14. "The winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize". Charles Taylor Foundation. Retrieved 28 December 2017.

External links

• Barbara Taylor profile at the Queen Mary college of the University of London

Awards
Preceded by G. E. M. de Ste. Croix	Deutscher Memorial Prize 1983	Succeeded by Margaret A. Rose [Wikidata]