Lillian Bayard Taylor Kiliani
Born
Lillian Bayard Taylor

(1858-08-03)August 3, 1858
Gotha, Germany
DiedOctober 10, 1940(1940-10-10) (aged 82)
Bavaria, Germany
Other namesLilian Bayard Taylor Kiliani, Mrs. Otto Kiliani
Occupation(s)Poet, translator, anti-suffragist
SpouseOtto Kiliani
ParentBayard Taylor
RelativesPeter Andreas Hansen (grandfather)
Charles Frederick Taylor (uncle)

Lillian Bayard Taylor Kiliani (August 3, 1858 – October 10, 1940), also seen as Lilian Bayard Taylor, was a German-American poet, translator, and anti-suffragist.

Early life and education

Taylor was born in Gotha, Germany, the daughter of Bayard Taylor and Marie Hansen-Taylor. Her father was an American writer and diplomat; her mother was born in Germany, the daughter of astronomer Peter Andreas Hansen.[1] Taylor attended Anna C. Brackett's School in New York City, and Vassar College, as well as several schools in Germany.[2] She also studied art with the Art Students League of New York, and in Berlin.[3]

Career

Taylor wrote and translated poetry and other texts,[4] including a German translation of Hamlet for Edwin Booth in the 1880s.[5] She was active in several German women's organizations,[6] including a stint as president of the German Governesses' Home Association.[2] She was international secretary of the New York State Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage,[7][8] and an honorary member of the organization's British equivalent.[2] She visited England in 1909, and reported back to American newspapers that there was "no hope in England for woman suffrage."[9]

Publications

  • On Two Continents: Memories of Half A Century (1905, with Marie Hansen Taylor)[10]
  • A Sheaf of Poems (1911, her father's translations of German poetry, interspersed with her own translations of the same poems)[11][12]
  • "Women's Rights and Women's Work" (1912)[13]

Personal life and legacy

Taylor married German surgeon and medical school professor Otto George Theobald Kiliani in 1887.[14] They had a son, Richard, born in 1888, and a daughter, Gladys, who died in childhood.[2] During World War I, her husband served as a surgeon in the German army's medical corps, and their son Richard served in an American regiment.[1] Her mother, who moved back to Germany in 1915[1][15] and lived with the Kilianis in Bavaria, died in 1925;[16] her husband died in 1928,[17] and her son died in 1934.[18] She died in 1940, at the age of 83, in Germany.[19] Some of her letters and journals are in the Marie Hansen Taylor papers at Stanford University.[20] In 1925, she donated some of her father's papers to Yale University.[16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Mrs. Bayard Taylor Abandons America; Eighty-six-Year-Old Widow Author-Diplomat Returns to Germany Today; Dislikes Our Attitude; Dr. Otto Kiliani, Her Son-in-law, Is Serving Her Native Land in the Medical Corps". The New York Times. 1915-07-24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. American commonwealth Company. 1914. p. 455.
  3. ↑ Singer, Sandra L. (2003-04-30). Adventures Abroad: North American Women at German-Speaking Universities, 1868-1915. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 231–232, note 52. ISBN 978-0-313-32371-3.
  4. ↑ "Barbarossa, translated by Bayard Taylor and Lilian Bayard Taylor Kiliani" Viereck's 10(6)(August 1919): 172.
  5. ↑ Watermeier, Daniel J. (2015-03-08). Between Actor and Critic: Selected Letters of Edwin Booth and William Winter. Princeton University Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-1-4008-7167-4.
  6. ↑ "Good Showing by German Women; Exhibition of Their Importance in Business and in Home Opens in Berlin". Chicago Tribune. 1912-03-17. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-07-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "'Antis' Take Stock; Review the Year's Work and Are of Good Cheer". New-York Tribune. 1910-01-30. p. 49. Retrieved 2023-07-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Badges for Women Who Want No Vote; Anti-Suffragists Will Adopt Pin for Emblem and Have Colors Also". The New York Times. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
  9. ↑ "Mrs. Kiliani on Suffrage; Sees No Hope of Votes for Women in England". New-York Tribune. 1909-10-23. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-07-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ Taylor, Marie Hansen; Kiliani, Lilian Bayard Taylor (1905). On Two Continents: Memories of Half a Century. Doubleday, Page.
  11. ↑ Killiani, Mrs Lillian Bayard Taylor (1911). A Sheaf of Poems. R. G. Badger.
  12. ↑ Krumpelmann, John T. (2019-03-18). Bayard Taylor and German letters. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 29. ISBN 978-3-11-132621-4.
  13. ↑ Kiliani, LIlian Bayard Taylor (1912-11-29). "Women's Rights and Women's Work". New-York Tribune. p. 11. Retrieved 2023-07-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Bayard Taylor's Daughter's Engagement". The Hazleton Sentinel. 1887-05-09. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-07-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "Bayard Taylor's Widow (L. M.)". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1925-01-19. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-07-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. 1 2 "Bayard Taylor's Daughter Donates Poems to Yale; Manuscripts of 17 Works in German are Turned Over". The Bridgeport Telegram. 1925-11-25. p. 11. Retrieved 2023-07-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ↑ "Dr. Otto G.T. Kiliani; Former Surgery Professor at Columbia Dead in Bavaria". The New York Times. 1928-06-13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
  18. ↑ "Dies in Germany". The News Journal. 1934-11-17. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-07-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ↑ "Kin of Bayard Taylor Dies". The Morning News. 1940-11-01. p. 31. Retrieved 2023-07-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ↑ "Guide to the Marie Hansen Taylor Papers, 1848-1927 M0603". Online Archive of California. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
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