Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna was a popular Victorian English writer and novelist who wrote as Charlotte Elizabeth. She was "a woman of strong mind, powerful feeling, and of no inconsiderable share of tact." Her work focused on promoting women's rights and evangelical Protestantism, as seen in her book Protection; or, The Candle and the Dog: "Our greatest blessings come to us by prayer, and the studying of God's word". "She was above all else an anti-Romanist, a most protesting Protestant." She had temporary vision loss at the age of six, and she suffered permanent hearing loss at the age of ten, "due to medication she was taking for other ailments." Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote of her memoir Personal Recollections : "We know of no piece of autobiography in the English language which can compare with this in richness of feeling and description and power of exciting interest."
“There is an immeasurable distance between submission to the cross and acceptance of it.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 170.
