Eglanton Thorne

Born Elizabeth Emily Charlton in 1852, she wrote under the pseudonym Eglanton Thorne. She was the daughter of Congregational minister Rev. John M. Charlton, and sources note that her first piece was published in a children's magazine when she was only eleven.

She went on to write around fifty books, many of them for the Religious Tract Society. Her fiction was aimed largely at children and young people, and her titles suggest a gift for warm storytelling with a strong moral center.

Although she is less widely known now than some of her Victorian contemporaries, her work has remained visible through public-domain archives such as Project Gutenberg and Wikisource. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found from the sources reviewed during this search.