Elizabeth Charles

Background

She was born at Tavistock, Devon, the daughter of John Rundle, Member of Parliament.

Career

Her best known book, written to order for an editor who wished for a story about Martin Luther, The Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family, was published in 1862, and was translated into most of the European languages, into Arabic, and into many Indian dialects. Mrs Charles wrote in all over fifty books, the majority of a semi-religious character, as well as writing and translating a number of hymns. Our Seven Homes (1896) is autobiographical.

A number of her hymns appeared in The Family Treasury, edited by William Arnot (1808–1875).

Around a Table, Not a Tomb

Come and Rejoice with Maine

Is Thy Cruse of Comfort Wasting? Jesus, What Once Thou Wast

Never Further Than Thy Cross

Praise Ye the Triune God

What Marks the Dawning of the Year?

Dost Thou in a Manger Lie? Lo, the Day, the Day of Life! The Morning Kindles All the Sky

A Lamb Goes Uncomplaining Forth (Original: Paul Gerhardt, German).

Achievements

• Some of her youthful poems won the praise of Tennyson, who read them in manuscript.

Connections

Friend:

Dean Stanley