Louise Chandler Moulton
Louise Chandler Moulton (April 10, 1835 – August 10, 1908) was an American
poet, story-writer and
critic.
Contributing poems and stories of power and grace to the leading magazines, ''
Harper's Magazine'', ''
The Atlantic'', ''
The Galaxy'', the first ''
Scribner's'', she also published a half-dozen very successful books for children, ''Bedtime Stories'', ''Firelight Stories'', ''Stories Told at Twilight'', and others that were considered popular in their day. She collected a few of her many adult tales into volumes, ''Miss Eyre of Boston'' and ''Some Women's Hearts''. It is in
Boston that she did the greater part of her work, including her books of travel, ''Random Rambles'' and ''Lazy Tours'', published her four volumes of poetry, and edited and prefaced biographies, ''A Last Harvest'' and ''Garden Secrets'', and the ''Collected Poems'' of
Philip Bourke Marston, as well as a selection from
Arthur O'Shaughnessy's verses.
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