Ida Alice Ashworth Taylor (1847–1929) was an English novelist and biographer.
[1] 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.
[2] 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".