The Wizard's Cave is a children's fantasy novel by Eglanton Thorne, first published in 1912. The story follows the adventures of a young boy named Robin, who discovers a wizard's cave in the woods near his home. Robin is drawn into the cave and meets the wizard, who tells him that he is the chosen one who will save the kingdom from an evil sorcerer. Robin must face many challenges on his quest, but with the help of the wizard and his friends, he is able to defeat the sorcerer and save the kingdom.
Elizabeth Emily Charlton was born in 1852 in Totteridge, the daughter of Congregational minister Rev. John M. Charlton. At the young age of eleven her first production was published by a children's magazine. Charlton would go on to pen fifty books under the pseudonym "Eglanton Thorne" mostly for the Religious Tract Society. Raised in the west country where her father was a professor at Western College, she lived most of her life in London. While there, she was "an enthusiastic worker in a West London mission." She never married and died on 17 September 1907 in Plymouth.
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