ELIZABETH CHARLES (1828-1896)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V05,
Page 937
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ELIZABETH CHARLES (1828-1896)
, English author, was born at Tavistock on the 2nd of January 1828, the daughter of John Rundle, M.P
.
Some of her youthful poems won the praise of, Tennyson, who read them in manuscript
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In 1851 she married Andrew Paton Charles
.
Her best known book, written to See also: - ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
for an editor who wished for a story about See also: - MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
, The Chronicles of the Schonberg- 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 some fifty books, the majority of a semi-religious character
.
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, Jowett and Pusey
.
She died at Hampstead on the 28th of March 1896
.
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