CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896), English author, was born at Tavistock on Jan. 2 1828, the daughter of John Rundle, M.P., and died at Hampstead on March 28 1896. In 1851 she married Andrew Paton Charles. Her best known book, The Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family, was published in 1862, and was translated into most of the European languages, into Arabic, and into many Indian dialects. Mrs. Charles wrote in all some so books, the majority of a semi-religious character.