Jan­u­a­ry 2, 1828, Ta­vi­stock, De­von­shire, Eng­land.

March 28, 1896, Hamp­stead Heath, Lon­don, Eng­land.

St. John Par­ish Church, Hamp­stead, Church Row, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Elizabeth was the daugh­ter of John Run­dle, bank­er and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment. She mar­ried bar­ris­ter And­rew Pa­ton Charles in 1851. Ang­li­can by af­fil­i­a­tion, she was a gift­ed po­et, mu­si­cian, paint­er, and au­thor, and trans­lat­ed a num­ber of hymns. Her works in­clude:

• The Voice of Chris­tian Life in Song; or, Hymns and Hymn-writ­ers of Ma­ny Lands and Ag­es (New York: Ro­bert Car­ter & Bro­thers, 1859)
• The Three Wak­ings, and Other Po­ems, 1859
• The Chron­i­cles of the Schön­berg-Cot­ta Fam­i­ly, 1863
• The Ear­ly Dawn, 1864
• The Mar­tyrs of Spain and the Lib­er­at­ors of Hol­land, 1865
• Mary, the Hand­maid of the Lord, 1865
• Wanderings over Bi­ble Lands and Seas, 1866
• The Di­ary of Kit­ty Trev­y­lan
• Poems, 1867
• Songs Old and New, 1882
• Lady Au­gus­ta Stan­ley, 1893
• Early Chris­tian Mis­sions of Ire­land, Scot­land, and Eng­land

• Charles
• Haeussler, p. 590
• Julian, pp. 218, 1556, 1620

1. Age Af­ter Age Shall Call Her Blessed
2. Around a Ta­ble, Not a Tomb
3. Come and Re­joice with Me
4. Is Thy Cruse of Com­fort Wasting?
5. Jesus, What Once Thou Wast
6. Never Fur­ther Than Thy Cross
7. No Gos­pel Like This Feast
8. Praise Ye the Tri­une God
9. What Marks the Dawn­ing of the Year?

1. Dost Thou in a Man­ger Lie?
2. Lo, the Day, the Day of Life!
3. Morning Kin­dles All the Sky, The