When she died on 12 July 1846, Charlotte Elizabeth Browne Phelan Tonna had long been recognized as a prolific and significant evangelical writer for children and adults. A year before her death, an article published in the July 1845 Christian Examiner proclaimed that her writings had secured "an unhesitating reception among most of those called Evangelical Christians" and that they were to be found in "the libraries and schools of the largest denominations in England and America." Individual works by "Charlotte Elizabeth" (her baptismal name, under which she published) were translated into such diverse languages as French, Italian, Marathi (in Bombay), and the Mpongwe language of Gabon in West Africa. Even her admirers commented on the sometimes offensively dogmatic and tactless way she approached any belief different from her own, but the tract societies and other publishers for whom she wrote clearly recognized a market for her work. Charlotte Elizabeth is...