Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family

Elizabeth RundleCharles (2 January 1828 – 28 March 1896) was an English writer. Some of heryouthful poems won the praise of Tennyson, who read them in manuscript. Herbest known book, written to order for an editor who wished for a story aboutMartin Luther, The Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family, was published in1862, and was translated into most of the European languages, into Arabic,and into many Indian dialects. Mrs Charles wrote in all over fifty books, themajority of a semi-religious character, as well as writing and translating anumber of hymns. Her works include The Voice of Christian Life in Song; or,Hymns and Hymn-writers of Many Lands and Ages (1859), The Three Wakings, andOther Poems (1859), Wanderings over Bible Lands and Seas (1862), The EarlyDawn (1864), Winifred Bertram and the World She Lived In (1866), Poems(1867), The Draytons and the Davenants (1867), Songs Old and New (1882), andConquering and to Conquer/The Diary of Brother Bartholomew. Our Seven Homes(1896) is autobiographical. A number of her hymns appeared in The FamilyTreasury, edited by William Arnot (1808–1875).