Louise Chandler Moulton (1835-1908) was an American writer of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. She was educated at the Troy Female Seminary and in 1855 married the Boston publisher, William Moulton. She regularly published verse, stories, and sketches in Godey's Lady's Book, Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, Harper's Bazaar, and other magazines. She went on to publish such volumes of prose fiction as Miss Eyre from Boston and Other Stories (1889) and such books of poetry as In the Garden of Dreams (1890). At different times during her career she wrote literary columns for the Boston Sunday Herald and the New York Tribune, and she also edited the poetry of Philip Bourke Marston and Arthur O'Shaughnessy.

Moulton was also well known for the literary salons she kept. Her Friday salon in Boston was frequented by such figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1876 she made her first trip to London and from that year until 1905 during the summers she maintained a literary salon there, which attracted the likes of Robert Browning, George Meredith, Francis Thompson, and Kenneth Grahame. Moulton died in Boston in 1908.