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MOULTON, LOUISE CHANDLER (1835-1908)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 935 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOULTON, See also:LOUISE See also:CHANDLER (1835-1908) , See also:American poet, See also:story-writer and critic, daughter of See also:Lucius L. Chandler, was See also:born in See also:Pomfret, See also:Connecticut, in 1835. In 1855 she married a See also:Boston publisher, See also:William U. Moulton (d. 1898), under whose auspices her earliest See also:literary See also:work had appeared in The True See also:Flag. Her first See also:volume of collected See also:verse and See also:prose, This, That and the Other (1854), was followed by a story, See also:Juno See also:Clifford (1855), and by My Third See also:Book (1859); her literary output was then interrupted until 1873 when she resumed activity with See also:Bed-See also:time Stories, the first of a See also:series of volumes, including Firelight Stories (x883) and Stories told at See also:Twilight (189o). Meanwhile she had taken an important See also:place in American literary society, See also:writing See also:regular critiques for the New See also:York See also:Tribune from 1870 to 1876 and a weekly literary See also:letter for the See also:Sunday issue of the Boston See also:Herald from 1886 to 1892. In 1876 she published a volume of notable Poems (renamed See also:Swallow flights in the See also:English edition of 1877) and visited See also:Europe, where she began See also:close and lasting friend-See also:ships with leading men and See also:women of letters. Thenceforward she spent the summers in See also:London and the See also:rest of the See also:year in Boston, where her See also:salon was one of the See also:principal resorts of literary See also:talent. In 1889 another volume of verse, In the See also:Garden of Dreams, confirmed her reputation as a poet. She also wrote several volumes of prose fiction, including See also:Miss See also:Eyre from Boston and Other Stories, and some descriptions of travel, including Lazy See also:Tours in See also:Spain (1896). She was well known for the extent of her literary See also:influence, the result of a sympathetic See also:personality combined with See also:fine See also:critical See also:taste.

She died in Boston on the loth of See also:

August 1908. See Lilian See also:Whiting, Louise Chandler Moulton (Boston, 191o). See also:MOULTRIE, See also:JOHN (1799-1874), English poet, was born in London on the 3oth of See also:December 1799. He was educated at See also:Eton, and many of his best verses were contributed to the Etonian. He entered Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1819, and in 1822 began to reside at the See also:Middle See also:Temple. Three years later he was ordained, and was presented to the living of See also:Rugby by See also:Lord See also:Craven. At Rugby he became intimate with See also:Thomas See also: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 See also:complete edition of his poems was published (2 vols., 1876) with a memoir by See also:Derwent See also:Coleridge. They include, amongst much that is dull, some popular pieces, " See also:Godiva," " Three Minstrels," an See also:account of meetings with See also:Wordsworth, Coleridge and See also:Tennyson, " My See also:Brother's See also:Grave," and some excellent See also:hymns.

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