John Taylor

MS became a Unitarian like John Taylor before she married him. It has been said that she followed him again in his further change of religious affiliation, becoming a Quaker in 1790.

MS finally married John Taylor ; they had waited something like fourteen years to marry, until after the death of Scott's mother, either because of her illness or because of her disapproval.

Though accounts differ, it seems that MS must have met her future husband, John Taylor , when she was in her early twenties, not long before she published The Female Advocate in 1774. Her references...