Born: Jan­u­a­ry 2, 1828, Ta­vi­stock, De­von, Eng­land.

Died: March 28, 1896, Hamp­stead, Lon­don, Eng­land.

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

Elizabeth was the daugh­ter of John Run­dle, bank­er and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment. She mar­ried law­yer 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
• Po­ems, 1867
• Songs Old and New, 1882

Sources

Hymns

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?

Translations

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