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Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family

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Elizabeth Rundle Charles (2 January 1828 – 28 March 1896) was an English writer. 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 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. Her works include…