[Charles, Elizabeth Rundle]. The Early Dawn; or, Sketches of Christian Life in England in the Olden Time; By the Author of "Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family." With Introduction by Prof. Henry B. Smith, D. D. New York: M. W. Dodd, 1866. [10661]
Green publisher's cloth with slight wear, bright gilt, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches, 429 clean pp., tight. Very good. Hardcover.
A story of religion in England from the first times to the dawn of the Reformation. "The Druid is first introduced in converse with the Jew and the Christian. The Two Martyrs of Verulam fall within the period of Roman domination, full fifteen hundred years ago. The fortunes of an Anglo-Saxon family are briefly sketched through three generations. The contests of the Saxon and the Norman, and their different traits, are vividly portrayed, in the time of the Crusades. And few tales are more interesting and instructive than that in which Cuthbert narates his experience in the Order of St. Francis and his illumination by the 'Everlasting Gospel' of Joachim, and Cicely relates how Dr. Wycliffe, of Oxford, ministered to her spiritual needs and insight." - Introduction.
Elizabeth Charles (1828-1896), formerly Miss Rundle, b. in England, daughter of a member of Parliament. She was a celebrated author who contributed many religious books for publication. "No modern writer for the religious public has attained a higher position than that which justly belongs to the author of this series of works. Their spirit is purely evangelical; their whole tendency is to promote true Christianity." Biblical Repository and Princeton Review, Jan. 1866.
