Born: 10 April 1835, United States
Died: 10 August 1908
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Ellen Louise Chandler
The following is republished with permission from the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail.
An author, critic, correspondent, and hostess to literary notables of her day, Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) was perhaps best known as a person who encouraged new talent and introduced American readers to new poets and writers. Her influence extended over both Boston and London where annually for six months in each place she held weekly salons for writers over a period of three decades. Among the people with South End roots who attended her salon was the Irish American writer Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920). Chandler’s own writings included poems, travel and narrative sketches, children’s stories, and reviews frequently published in the journals and newspapers of her era. Like many other women of the time, Moulton was also interested in the practice of spiritualism.
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1835, 5 Apr. Born, Pomfret, Conn.
1855 Married William U. Moulton (died 1898)
1856 Published This, That, and the Other. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co.; and New York: J. C. Derby
1870-1876 Wrote literary critiques, New York Tribune
1878 Published Poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers
1881 Published Random Rambles. Boston: Roberts Brothers
1886-1892 Wrote weekly literary letter, Boston Herald
1887 Edited and prefaced with a biographical sketch Garden Secrets by Philip Bourke Marsten. Boston: Roberts Brothers
1888 Published Some Women’s Hearts. Boston: Roberts Brothers
1892 Published Swallow Flights, new edition of Poems (1877), with ten additional poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers
1908, Aug. 10 Died, Boston, Mass.