LOUISE

See also:

• CHANDLER, HENRY WILLIAM (1828-1889)
• CHANDLER, RICHARD (1738-1810)
• CHANDLER, SAMUEL (1693-1766)
• CHANDLER, ZACHARIAH (1813-1879)

CHANDLER

See also:

• LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON (1835-1908)

MOULTON (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 (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 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 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 taste .

She died in Boston on the loth of

August 1908 . See Lilian Whiting, Louise Chandler Moulton (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 .