Ida Ashworth Taylor

Ida Alice Ashworth Taylor (1847–1929) was an English novelist and biographer.

Ida Taylor was the daughter of the playwright Henry Taylor and Alice Spring Rice, daughter of Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle. A Catholic convert, Taylor wrote for periodicals including The Dublin Review and The Nineteenth Century. For most of her adult life she lived with her younger sister, Una, in Montpelier Square in London. The pair "conducted a literary salon, of which the characteristic notes were intellectual interest and Irish warm-heartedness".

She died at her home in Wootton Wood in the New Forest. The cardinal democrat, Henry Edward Manning, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1908. (ed.) The maxims of Madame Swetchine, London: Burns & Oates, 1908. Robert Southwell, S.J.: priest and poet, London: Sands, 1908. Christina of Sweden, London: Hutchinson, 1909. The making of a king, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1910. Life of Madame Roland, 1911. The life of James IV, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1913. With an introduction by Sir George Douglas, Bart. The tragedy of an army: La Vendée in 1793, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1913. Joan of Arc; soldier and saint, Edinburgh: Sands & Co., 1920.