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ELIZABETH CHARLES (1828-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 937 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ELIZABETH CHARLES (1828-1896)  ,
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English author, was born at
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Tavistock on the 2nd of
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January 1828, the daughter of John Rundle, M.P . Some of her youthful poems won the praise of,Tennyson, who read them in
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manuscript . In 1851 she married Andrew Paton Charles . Her best known
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book, written to order for an editor who wished for a story about Martin Luther, The Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta
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Family, was published in 1862, and was translated into most of the
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European
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languages, into Arabic, and into many
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Indian dialects . Mrs Charles wrote in all some fifty books, the majority of a semi-religious character . She took an active
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part in the
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work of various charitable institutions, and among her friends and correspondents were Dean Stanley, Archbishop Tait, Charles Kingsley, Jowett and Pusey . She died at
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Hampstead on the 28th of March 1896 .

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