Charlotte Elliott

Born in 1789 and based for much of her life in Brighton, she was an English evangelical Anglican poet, hymn writer, and editor. She is most closely associated with "Just as I Am" and "Thy will be done," hymns that helped make her one of the most enduring devotional voices of the 19th century.

Her writing was shaped by long periods of illness, and that inward, reflective quality gave her hymns a directness that many readers and singers have found deeply moving. Alongside writing verse, she also worked as an editor, contributing to religious literature as well as hymnody.

Though her life was outwardly quiet, her words traveled widely. She died in 1871, but her best-known hymn in particular has remained a lasting part of Christian worship and popular religious culture.