Erik Routley

Standard Name: Routley, Erik

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Author summary Charlotte Elliott
CE was a prolific author in the mid nineteenth century of religious lyrics, many of them hymns, which circulated in periodicals, annuals, and collections. Her enduring reputation rests on the hymn Just as I am—without...
Literary responses Charlotte Elliott
The hymn was immediately popular, and was a great comfort to Dora Wordsworth in her final illness. CE received and preserved over a thousand letters thanking her for having written it.
Wells, Amos R. A Treasure of Hymns. Books for Libraries Press.
61
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Erik Routley in...
Literary responses Charlotte Elliott
Shortly after CE 's death, the New York Evangelist claimed that writing Just as I am was a higher honour than to have worn a crown,
“The Late Charlotte Elliott”. New York Evangelist, Vol.
46
, No. 42, p. 2.
46.42 (16 November 1871): 2
and Theron Brown and...

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Routley, Erik. Hymns and Human Life. John Murray, 1959.