Gertrude Winifred Taylor (1880 – 1948) was a British author of novels and history.
[1][note 1] Educated at Notting Hill High School, she studied modern history at St Hilda’s College, Oxford from 1899 – 1902[2] and eventually received her degree in 1920.
[3] With her friend and fellow Oxford graduate Dorothy Katherine Broster, Taylor wrote two novels: Chantermarle: A Romance of the Vendean War (1911) and The Vision Splendid (1913).
[4][5] Her solo works included religious plays and a university novel, The Pearl (1917), which explores issues of class and gender in the religious experience of an Oxford undergraduate.
[6] She also finished a history begun by her late brother Frank, which was published as The Wars of Marlborough 1702 – 1709 (1921).