Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor (died 5 February 1708) was a British poet of the Restoration period.

Taylor was the daughter of Sir Thomas Taylor, 1st Baronet, and Elizabeth Hall.

Her ode, "Ah poor Olinda never boast", told from the point of view of a young woman, appeared in two songbooks: A Collection of Twenty Four Songs (1684) and The Theater of Music (1685). Delarivier Manley reprinted it in 1708 in her The New Atalantis and described Taylor as "the wittiest Lady of the Age." Aphra Behn published "To Mertill who desired her to speak to Clorinda of his Love" and two other poems by Taylor, all of which feature women who suffered in love, in Miscellany, Being a Collection of Poems by Several Hands (1685). Taylor is the only woman author in the miscellany credited by name.

Elizabeth Taylor died on 5 February 1708.

Over a century later, her work was anthologized in Specimens of British Poetesses (1825).