Edgar Taylor (author)

Taylor was also an original member of the Noncon Club, which was founded in July 1817 by Robert Aspland to advance religious freedom.

[1] Taylor anonymously published translations of the Brothers Grimm's Kinder- und Hausmärchen as German Popular Stories between 1823 and 1826, with illustrations by George Cruikshank.

[3] The second edition, Gammer Grethel, or German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories, was published in 1839 and contained illustrations from both Cruikshank and Ludwig Emil Grimm.

[1] Jack Zipes regards Taylor's translations as representative of a more general movement gathering support in the 1820s, which tended to separate the fantasy elements of fairy tales from cruelty and bawdy, with the addition of Christian teaching.

Jan Susina wrote that the popularity of the translations helped make fairytales an acceptable form of children's literature in England.