Eglanton Thorne

Writing as Eglanton Thorne, Elizabeth Emily Charlton was a British author born in 1852. She was the daughter of Congregational minister Rev. John M. Charlton, and sources note that her first piece appeared in a children's magazine when she was only eleven.

She went on to publish around fifty books, many of them for the Religious Tract Society. Her fiction was aimed largely at children and young readers, and titles such as The Old Worcester Jug, A Sham Princess, and Worthy of His Name helped make her a familiar name in late Victorian religious and family reading.

Charlton appears to have lived much of her life in London and was remembered as active in mission work there. She never married and died in Plymouth on September 17, 1907. No suitable verified portrait image was found from a Wikipedia author page, so no profile image is included here.