Elizabeth Charles

02 January 1828 - 28 March 1896

Elizabeth Charles wrote novels, poems, and hymns, as well as books on historical and religious subjects. Her entire oeuvre is a testament to her vigorous evangelical convictions; her fiction typically marries religious didacticism with a spirited and readable style, compelling female narrators, and allusions ranging from chemistry to classical literature and aesthetic theory. EC published at least fifty titles during her career in the latter half of the nineteenth century, sixteen with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge . Her novels went through many editions, and she was widely read in the US.

Milestones

2 January 1828

EC was born Elizabeth Rundle at a house named the Bank, at Tavistock in Devon.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

Late 1863

EC , as the author of The Voice of Christian Life in Song, published her best-known book, Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family, with a date of 1864.

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Charles, Elizabeth. Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family. T. Nelson.

prelims

1885-1896

During her last decade or so, EC published no fewer than sixteen religious works with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge .

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

28 March 1896

EC died suddenly at Combe Edge in Hampstead.

Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Editor Davidson, Mary, John Murray.

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Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan.

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Biography

Birth and Family

2 January 1828

EC was born Elizabeth Rundle at a house named the Bank, at Tavistock in Devon.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.