Charlotte Elliott

Born in 1789, Charlotte Elliott was an English evangelical Anglican poet, hymn writer, and editor. She is most closely associated with Just as I Am, Without One Plea, one of the best-known hymns in the English-speaking Christian world, and she is also remembered for Thy will be done.

Elliott spent much of her life in poor health, and that experience shaped the quiet honesty of her writing. Rather than writing in a grand or distant style, she often expressed faith in a personal, humble voice, which gave her hymns a lasting emotional force.

She died in Brighton in 1871, but her words continued to travel far beyond her own time. Today she is remembered as a writer whose hymns joined tenderness, spiritual struggle, and trust in God with unusual clarity.