Louise Chandler Moulton, Poet and Friend

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Lilian Whiting. Louise Chandler Moulton, Poet and Friend

Louise Chandler Moulton, Poet and Friend

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CHAPTER I. 1835-1853

CHAPTER II. 1853-1860

CHAPTER III. 1860-1876

CHAPTER IV. 1876-1880

CHAPTER V. 1880-1890

CHAPTER VI. 1890-1895

CHAPTER VII. 1895-1900

CHAPTER VIII. 1900-1906

CHAPTER IX. 1907-1908

THE MOULTON COLLECTION

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Lilian Whiting

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Not content with being a contributor to the annuals of others, Miss Chandler compiled a gift-book of her own: "The Book of the Boudoir; a Gift for All Seasons, Edited by Ellen Louise." By her publisher's insistence her own portrait formed the frontispiece, and the book contained also an engraving of Elmwood Cottage. The letter-press opened with an "Invocation to the Spirit of Poetry" by the youthful editor, and besides sketches and verses of her own the volume offered contributions by Mrs. Sigourney, Virginia F. Townsend, George S. Burleigh, Amanda M. Douglas, and others.

With this publication Miss Chandler may be said to have come fully and formally into full-fledged authorship. She was deeply tinged with the sentimental fashions which reigned universally in America in the middle of the nineteenth century, and which had, indeed, by no means disappeared in England; but she had genuine feeling, a natural instinct for literary form, an ear unusually sensitive to metrical effect, and her real power had already shown itself unmistakably. From this time on her progress in her art was sure and constant.

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