Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

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Standard Name: Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth
Birth Name: Charlotte Elizabeth Browne
Married Name: Charlotte Elizabeth Phelan
Married Name: Charlotte ELizabeth Tonna
Pseudonym: Charlotte Elizabeth
CET was a prolific writer of poems, novels, children's books and religious tracts during the early nineteenth century, as well as a periodical editor. She was extremely popular in her day as a didactic author of texts for children, but is now mostly remembered for her writing on the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution. She is forthright and passionate in her denunciation of the effects on women of waged industrial employment, the monstrous abuse of forcing the female to forsake her proper sphere.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth. The Wrongs of Woman. John S. Taylor, 1844.
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Photograph of a print of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna by Francis Croll. She is seen from the shoulders up, wearing a simple dark dress with a grey shawl wrapped around her shoulders, and a light cap which is smooth on top, ruffled around the sides, and tied in a bow under her chin. A pendant on a long chain hangs round her neck. Her signature is reproduced below.

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Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth. The Perils of the Nation. Seeley, Burnside and Seeley, 1843.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth. The Shepherd Boy; and, The Deluge. Francis Westley, 1823.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth. The Simple Flower. American Tract Society, 1840.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth. The System. F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1827.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth. The Willow Tree. J. and M. Porteous, 1828.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. M. W. Dodd, 1844, 3 vols.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. M. W. Dodd, 1845, 2 vols.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth. The Wrongs of Woman. W. H. Dalton, 1843.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth. The Wrongs of Woman. John S. Taylor, 1844.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth. Works. M. W. Dodd, 1830, 2 vols.