1. Charlotte Elliott was an English evangelical Anglican poet, hymn writer, and editor.
18 Facts About Charlotte Elliott
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Charlotte Elliott is best known by two hymns, "Just As I Am" and "Thy will be done".
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Charlotte Elliott published "My God and Father while I stray" in the same collection.
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Charlotte Elliott shrank from everything ostentatious, nearly all her books having been issued anonymously.
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Charlotte Elliott's maternal grandfather, Henry Venn of the Clapham Sect, of Huddersfield and Yelling, England, was a clergyman.
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Charlotte Elliott wrote The Complete Duty of Man, and was one of that band of ministers, whose labours and writings brought about and promoted the Great Awakening of the 18th century, among the churches of Great Britain.
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Charlotte Elliott married a daughter of Thomas Bishop, a cleric in Ipswich.
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Charlotte Elliott's siblings were Henry Venn Elliott and Edward Bishop Elliott, who were members of the clergy and engaged as assistants to the vicar, rector and parish priest of St Mary the Virgin Church and St Mark's Church, Brighton respectively.
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Henry Venn Charlotte Elliott was the founder of St Mary's Hall in Brighton.
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Charlotte Elliott's childhood was passed in a circle of great refinement and piety.
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Charlotte Elliott was highly educated, and developed, at an early age, a great passion for music and art.
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Charlotte Elliott spent the first 32 years of her life in Clapham.
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Charlotte Elliott became a favourite in social circles where religion was not mentioned, but a severe sickness in 1821 removed her from these companions and led her to feel a need for a personal Saviour.
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Charlotte Elliott's health was improved by a visit the following year to Normandy.
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Charlotte Elliott contributed several hymns in 1835 to a selection of Psalms and Hymns by her brother, Henry V Elliott.
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Charlotte Elliott published, in 1836, Hours of Sorrow Cheered and Comforted.
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Charlotte Elliott died at 10 Norfolk Terrace, Brighton, on 22 September 1871, and was buried alongside her brothers in the churchyard of St Andrew's, Hove.
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Charlotte Elliott wrote about 150 hymns and many poems, some of which were printed anonymously, with Just As I Am probably the best known.