3-080-781 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Portrait of Rachel Annand Taylor, 1907. Rachel Annand, was born in Aberdeen in 1876. She married Alexander Cameron Taylor. In 1943 she was awarded an honorary LLD by Aberdeen University, her alma mater. She lived in Aberdeen, Dundee and London and died on 15 August 1960. Annand was a noted poet, whose published works included Poems (1904); Rose and Vine (1908); The House of Fiammetta (1909); Aspects of the Italian Renaissance (1923); The End of Fiammetta (1923); Leonardo the Florentine (1927); Dunbar the Poet and his Period (1931) and Renaissance France (1949). She was a friend of D.H. Lawrence, who admired her work and wrote to her on the subject.