Louise C. Moulton was a nineteenth century poetess, novelist, and newspaper correspondent. An introduction to her life and work.
Louise Chandler Moulton was an American writer, critic, and newspaper correspondent of the late nineteenth century who, because of her charming personality, was loved by her hundreds of friends and thousands of readers.
Louise Moutlon was born Louise Chandler on April 10, 1835 in Pomfret, Connecticut. For years after winning literary fame, Louise made her hometown her place of residence for at least part of every year.
Louise's first work, a collection of stories and poems entitled "This, That and the Other", was published when she was only eighteen years old by a Boston firm. It was an immediate success and soon sold fifteen thousand copies. The following year she entered Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York, in which she stayed for a year. In 1855 she married William U. Moutlon, a Boston editor who know her through her writing.
Soon Louise established herself as a writer and social reformer in the Boston area. Her poems, stories, and sketches landed her regular work with Godey's Lady's Book, Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, Youth's Companion, Harper's Bazaar, and other popular magazines. Among her books are "Bedtime Stories", a collection of bedtime stories for children, "Lazy Tours in Spain and Elsewhere", "Little Mother", "Some Women's Hearts", "Fleeing from Tah", and "Poems and Sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton", which was published after she died. She also edited several volumes, including "The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston" and "Aruthur O'Shaughnessy, His Life and His Work".
In 1870, Louise began her work of Boston correspondent of the New York Tribune and continued this work, sometimes four articles per week, for six years. In 1876 she visited Europe, where she did considerable literary work while she traveled. One of her books was published while she visited London and was highly praised. From her first trip to London, she made the acquaintance of many literary figures. Louise spent increasing amounts of time in Europe until she had almost divided her year between London and Boston.
Louise Chandler died on August 10, 1908. She was a charming woman in the noblest sense of the word and warmly admired by her friends and readers.
