MOULTON, LOUISE CHANDLER (1835-1908)

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MOULTON, LOUISE CHANDLER (1835-1908) , American poet, story-writer and critic, daughter of Lucius L. Chandler, was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, in 1835. In 1855 she married a Boston publisher, William U.

Moulton

MOULTON, LOUISE CHANDLER (1835-1908)

(d. 1898), under whose auspices her earliest literary work had appeared in The True Flag. Her first volume of collected verse and prose, This, That and the Other (1854), was followed by a story, Juno Clifford (1855), and by My Third Book (1859); her literary output was then interrupted until 1873 when she resumed activity with Bed-time Stories, the first of a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of volumes, including Firelight Stories (x883) and Stories told at Twilight (189o). Meanwhile she had taken an important place in American literary society, writing regular critiques for the New

York

Tribune from 1870 to 1876 and a weekly literary

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

for the Sunday issue of the Boston Herald from 1886 to 1892. In 1876 she published a volume of notable Poems (renamed Swallow flights in the English edition of 1877) and visited Europe, where she began close and lasting friend-ships with leading men and women of letters. Thenceforward she spent the summers in London and the rest of the year in Boston, where her salon was one of the principal resorts of literary talent. In 1889 another volume of verse, In the Garden of Dreams, confirmed her reputation as a poet. She also wrote several volumes of prose fiction, including Miss Eyre from Boston and Other Stories, and some descriptions of travel, including Lazy Tours in Spain (1896). She was well known for the extent of her literary influence, the result of a sympathetic personality combined with fine

critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

taste. She died in Boston on the loth of August 1908.
See Lilian Whiting, Louise Chandler

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MOULTON, LOUISE CHANDLER (1835-1908)

(Boston, 191o). MOULTRIE, JOHN (1799-1874), English poet, was born in London on the 3oth of December 1799. He was educated at
Eton, and many of his best verses were contributed to the Etonian. He entered Trinity College,

Cambridge

, in 1819, and in 1822 began to reside at the Middle Temple. Three years later he was ordained, and was presented to the living of Rugby by Lord Craven. At Rugby he became intimate with Thomas

Arnold

, to whom two of his best sonnets are addressed. He died at Rugby on the 26th of December 1874. He published several volumes of verse during his lifetime, and a complete edition of his poems was published (2 vols., 1876) with a memoir by Derwent Coleridge. They include, amongst much that is dull, some popular pieces, " Godiva," " Three Minstrels," an account of meetings with Wordsworth, Coleridge and Tennyson, " My Brother's Grave," and some excellent hymns.

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