Elizabeth Rundle Charles (2 January 182828 March 1896) was an English writer. She was born at Tavistock, Devon, the daughter of John Rundle, MP. Some of her youthful poems won the praise of Tennyson, who read them in manuscript. In 1851 she married Andrew Paton Charles. She was affiliated with the Anglican Church, and died at Hampstead, London, in 1896. Author Charles's best known book, written to order for an editor who wished for a story about Martin Luther, The Chronicles of the Schönberg-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 over fifty books, the majority of a semi-religious character, as well as writing and translating a number of hymns. 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, William Booth, Benjamin Jowett and Edward Bouverie Pusey. Her works include The Voice of Christian Life in Song; or, Hymns and Hymn-writers of Many Lands and Ages (1859), The Three Wakings, and Other Poems (1859), Wanderings over Bible Lands and Seas (1862), The Early Dawn (1864), Winifred Bertram and the World She Lived In (1866), Poems (1867), The Draytons and the Davenants (1867), Songs Old and New (1882), and Conquering and to Conquer/The Diary of Brother Bartholomew. Our Seven Homes (1896) is autobiographical. A number of her hymns appeared in The Family Treasury, edited by William Arnot (1808–1875). Books The Voice of Christian Life in Song; or, Hymns and Hymn-writers of Many Lands and Ages (1859) The Three Wakings, and Other Poems (1859) Wanderings over Bible Lands and Seas (1862) The Early Dawn (1864) Diary of Mrs. Kitty Trevylyan (1864) Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family (1865) The Martyrs of Spain and the Liberators of Holland (1865) Winifred Bertram and the World She Lived In (1866) Poems (1867) The Draytons and the Davenants (1867) On Both Sides of the Sea (1868) The Victory of the Vanquished (1871) Songs Old and New (1882) Conquering and to Conquer/The Diary of Brother Bartholomew Our Seven Homes (1896) The Beatitudes: Thoughts for All Saints' Day By the Mystery of Thy Holy Incarnation By Thy Cross and Passion By Thy Glorious Resurrection and Ascension By the Coming of the Holy Ghost: Thoughts for Whitsuntide The True Vine The Great Prayer of Christendom: