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Sunday, 31 January 2010
Charlotte Elizabeth, and the Restoration of the Jews
 by Ibn Warraq (February 2010) George Eliot is usually considered the first novelist to have discussed “Zionism,” that is the restoration of the Jews to Palestine, in Daniel Deronda, which was published in 1876. Perhaps we should now change that to “the first distinguished novelist,” after considering the work of one Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, who wrote under the name, “Charlotte Elizabeth.” Her “Zionist novel,” Judah’s Lion was published in 1843. The erudite Hugh Fitzgerald, and incidentally, one of the great prose writers in English of the last fifty years, comparable to Roger Scruton, Christopher Hitchens, and Bernard Lewis, advised me to have a look at her works before assigning priority. I confess I had never heard of her. more>>> Posted on 01/31/2010 4:58 PM by NER
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