Charlotte Elliott is not counted among the powerhouses of Victorian poets. She did not create poems that were quoted in literary salons across the channel, nor was she typically given to presenting lectures and readings. Her name was not on the lips of the literati of London or Oxford, and she is not even listed in either the first or second series of Catherine Jane Hamilton's Women's Writers: Their Works and Ways (1892, 1893). Yet Elliott was noted in her day for her faithfulness to God, her verses that described her understanding of ideal faith, and the intensity of her vision. The challenges she faced seem pointedly rendered in her hymn "Just As I Am, Without One Plea" her best-known work and the single piece that has preserved her name for generations. Without "Just As I Am" it is likely that Elliott's name would not have made it into any...