Author: Tallant, Anne
Biography:
TALLANT, Anne, later NICHOLSON (1803-74: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born on 21 Mar. 1803 and baptised on 2 Apr. at Worksop, Nottinghamshire, one of at least nine children of John Tallant and his wife Sarah Tuxford, who had married at St. Mary Magdalene, Lincoln, in 1783. Nothing is known of her education or when the family moved to Lincoln but it was probably after her father’s death in 1810. An elder sister, Charlotte Augusta, married there in 1818. Anne Tallant published her novel Octavia Elphinstone, A Manx Story. And Lois, A Drama (1834) and The Practice Book; Containing Lessons in Dictation (1834) while at Lincoln. In 1841 she is recorded at the High Street, St. Peter at Gowts, Lincoln, with her aged mother and elder sister Mary, with whom she was running a school. They gave their occupation as schoolmistresses with about twelve girls as pupils. After her mother’s death in 1844, she married William Adams Nicholson (1803-1853), a widower, on 12 Apr. 1845 at St. Peter at Gowts. She gave her address as 369 High Street and her father’s profession as gentleman. Nicholson was a successful architect, living in Bank Street in the St. Swithin area of Lincoln, so she probably gave up running the school and moved there. She does not appear to have published after her marriage. Her husband died in 1853 and she continued to live at Bank Street until her death on 31 Dec. 1874, leaving an estate of under £14,000, mostly to her nieces since there was no issue from her marriage. Her unmarried niece Marian Bee had been living with her at the time of her death. (ancestry.co.uk 15 Sept. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 15 Sept. 2022; Stamford Mercury 1 Mar. 1844; Lincolnshire Chronicle 29 Apr. 1853; Morning Post 5 Jan. 1875; NPC; “Nicholson, William Adams,” ODNB 15 Sept. 2022) AA
Other Names:
- Miss Anne Tallant