 However, she is best known for her role as publisher, editor and writer for the influential building industry trade journals established in 1907 with her husband George, which she ran and expanded after his death in 1928 until her retirement in 1961.Taylor was born at Bedminster, in Somerset (now a part of Bristol), England to John Parsons and Eliza (née Brooks), working class parents who described themselves as "stone quarryman" and "washerwoman" in the British census of 1881.Her family migrated to Australia when she was a child, arriving in Sydney in 1884 after a short stint in Queensland.