Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton

American writer, critic and hostess

Also known as: Ellen Louise Chandler

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Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton (born April 10, 1835, Pomfret, Conn., U.S.—died Aug. 10, 1908, Boston, Mass.) was an American writer, critic, and hostess of the late 19th century, particularly influential through her literary salons in Boston and London. Louise Chandler was educated from 1854 to 1855 at Emma Willard’s Troy (New York) Female Seminary. In 1854 she published This, That, and the Other, a popular collection of verses and sketches earlier contributed to various periodicals....

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