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 her leisure between study and the society of a few congenial and erudite persons. She died, at the age of fifty, in the year 1817. She has left several translations from the Greek, and some Greek poems; besides an oration, which she delivered in Latin, on the inauguration of the doctor Maria Dalle-Donne into the college honours.

TARABOTT, CATERINA, born at Venice, in 1682, and was taught the art of painting by Alessandro Varotari. She profited so well by his instructions, as to be distinguished in her native city above many of the mos: considerable artists in history. She died there in 1631.

TARNOW, FANNY, one of the most remarkable and most fertile of all the modern German authoresses. Her genius was developed by misfortune and suffering: while yet an infant, she fell from a window two stories high, and was taken up. to the amazement of the assistants, without any apparent injury, except a few bruises; but all the vital functions suffered, and during ten or twelve years she was extended on a couch, neither joining in any of the amusements of childhood, nor subjected to the usual routine of female education. She educated herself. She read incessantly, and, as it was her only pleasure, books of every description, good and bad, were furnished her without restraint. She was about eleven years old when she made her first known poetical attempt, inspired by her own feelings and situation. It was a dialogue between herself and the angel of death. In her seventeenth year she was sufficiently recovered to take charge of her father's family, after he had lost, by some sudden misfortune, his whole property. He held, subsequently, a small office under government, the duties of which were principally performed by his admirable daughter. Her first writings were anonymous, and for a long time her name was unknown. Her most celebrated novel, the "Thekla," was published in 1815; and from this time she has enjoyed a high and public reputation. Fanny Tamow resides, or did reside, in Dresden.

TASTU, SABINE CASIMIR AMABLE VOREST, born at Metz, in 1798. She has taken several prizes offered by literary academies, and holds a place among the first rank of contemporary French poets. Her verses are written with great elegance, while the sentiments they convey are refined and moral. She has been very successful in her books for young persons.

TAYLOR, JANE, born in London, September 23rd., 1783, where her father a respectable engraver, then resided. Being also a dissenting minister, Mr Taylor accepted, in 1792, an invitation from a congregation at Colchester, and carried his daughters there with him, superintending himself their education, and teaching them his own art. It was in the intervals of these pursuits that Jane Taylor found leisure to write; and on a visit to London, in 1802, she and her sister were induced to join several other young ladies in contributing to the "Minor's Pocket-Book," a small publication, in which her first work,