LETTER: Manuscript poem, "Robert Browning's Star," signed "Louise Chandler Moulton," n.d.
Manuscript poem, "Robert Browning's Star," signed "Louise Chandler Moulton," n.d.
8vo.; one leaf, one page.
An original manuscript poem, inspired by Browning, composed in fourteen lines arranged in two stanzas.
Connecticut-born Chandler (b.1835) attended Emma Willard's seminary in Troy, New York, and began her writing career at the age of 15 by contributing to periodicals under the name of "Ellen Louise." She published her first book, which was very successful, after her marriage in 1855 to William U. Moulton, a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts. After her wedding she continued to write for the magazines, was long the Boston correspondent on literary topics of the New York Tribune, and sent letters on society and literature to newspapers from London and Paris. Between the mid-1850s and the late 1880s she published numerous children's books, as well as selections of stories, essays, and poems and at least one novel. In 1887 she edited and prefaced with a biographical sketch the "Garden Secrets" of Philip Bourke Marston.
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