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| | Elizabeth Charles - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | 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. |
 | | Her best known book, written to order for an editor who wished for a story about Martin Luther, 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. |
 | | 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. |
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