Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (October 1, 1790 – July 12, 1846) was an English evangelical Protestant writer and novelist who wrote as Charlotte Elizabeth.

She married in early life a Captain Phelan a surgeon of the 60th regiment, and spent two years with him while he served with his regiment in Nova Scotia. he marriage was not a happy one, and they separated about 1824. Mrs Phelan subsequently resided with her brother, Captain John Browne, at Clifton, He was returning at that time from Portugal, where he had been for some time as an officer in the British army, she accompanied him and his family to Sandhurst. In 1828, her brother, captain Murray Browne, was ordered to Ireland, where he was drowned while fishing.

reviewed in Colburn's new monthly magazine, Volume 14, 1820 p336

This poems found in

The works of Charlotte Elizabeth, Vol 11, NewYork : M.W. Dodd, 1845.