Miss Charlotte Elliott

Miss Charlotte Elliott

an English poetess, sister of the author of Horae Apocalypticae, was born in 1789, and died at Brighton, September 22, 1871. She wrote several volumes of religious poems, of which a number may be found in recent hymnals, especially "Just as I am, without one plea," which was composed after she had become a permanent invalid. Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Julia Anne Elliott, who died in 1841, also contributed several hymns to one of her earliest publications.