Elizabeth Charles

Elizabeth Charles
Elizabeth Rundle Charles (2 January 182828 March 1896) was an English writer.
She was born at Tavistock, Devon, the daughter of John Rundle, MP. Some of her youthful poems won the praise of Tennyson, who read them in manuscript. In 1851 she married Andrew Paton Charles. She was affiliated with the Anglican Church, and died at Hampstead, London, in 1896.
Author
Charles's 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. She took an active part in the work of various charitable institutions, and among her friends and correspondents were Dean Stanley, Archbishop Tait, Charles Kingsley, William Booth, Benjamin Jowett and Edward Bouverie Pusey.
Her works include The Voice of Christian Life in Song; or, Hymns and Hymn-writers of Many Lands and Ages (1859), The Three Wakings, and Other Poems (1859), Wanderings over Bible Lands and Seas (1862), The Early Dawn (1864), Winifred Bertram and the World She Lived In (1866), Poems (1867), The Draytons and the Davenants (1867), Songs Old and New (1882), and Conquering and to Conquer/The Diary of Brother Bartholomew. Our Seven Homes (1896) is autobiographical. A number of her hymns appeared in The Family Treasury, edited by William Arnot (1808–1875).
Books
The Voice of Christian Life in Song; or, Hymns and Hymn-writers of Many Lands and Ages (1859)
The Three Wakings, and Other Poems (1859)
Wanderings over Bible Lands and Seas (1862)
The Early Dawn (1864)
Diary of Mrs. Kitty Trevylyan (1864)
Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family (1865)
The Martyrs of Spain and the Liberators of Holland (1865)
Winifred Bertram and the World She Lived In (1866)
Poems (1867)
The Draytons and the Davenants (1867)
On Both Sides of the Sea (1868)
The Victory of the Vanquished (1871)
Songs Old and New (1882)
Conquering and to Conquer/The Diary of Brother Bartholomew
Our Seven Homes (1896)
The Beatitudes: Thoughts for All Saints' Day
By the Mystery of Thy Holy Incarnation
By Thy Cross and Passion
By Thy Glorious Resurrection and Ascension
By the Coming of the Holy Ghost: Thoughts for Whitsuntide
The True Vine
The Great Prayer of Christendom: Thoughts on the Lord's Prayer
An Old Story of Bethlehem: One Link in the Great Pedigree
Joan the Maid, Deliverer of England and France
Ecce Ancilla Domini: Mary the Mother of our Lord, Studies in the Ideal of Womanhood
Ecce Homo, Ecce Rex: Pages from the Story of the Moral Conquests of Christianity
Three Martyrs of the Nineteenth Century: Studies from the Lives of Gordon, Livingstone, and Patteson
Martyrs and Saints of the First Twelve Centuries: Studies from the Lives of the Black-letter Saints of the English Calendar
Against the Stream: The Story of an Heroic Age in England
Attila and his Conquerors: A Story of the Days of St. Patrick and St. Leo the Great
Early Christian Missions of Ireland, Scotland, and England
Lapsed, not Lost
Within the Veil: Studies in the Epistle to the Hebrews
The Book of the Unveiling: Studies in the Revelation of St. John the Divine
Lady Augusta Stanley: Reminiscences
Sketches of the Women of Christendom
Thoughts and Characters: Being Selections from the Writings of Mrs. Charles
Hymns
Around a Table, Not a Tomb
Come and Rejoice with Me
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?
Hymn translations
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)
References
External links
Wanderings over Bible lands and seas. By the author of the "Schönberg-Cotta family." (1862), the full text, University of Michigan Library.
English women poets
English women novelists
1828 births
1896 deaths
Writers from Tavistock
Writers from Hampstead
19th-century English women writers
19th-century English writers
19th-century English poets
19th-century English novelists