Lilian Whiting

Lilian Whiting (1847–1942) was an American journalist, poet and writer on spiritual subjects. Born in Niagara Falls, New York, and raised in Illinois, she moved to Boston, where she worked for the Boston Traveler and later edited the literary section of the Boston Budget. Her series The World Beautiful and books such as The Life Radiant expressed an optimistic spirituality close to the New Thought movement and to spiritualism. She also wrote biographies of Kate Field and Louise Chandler Moulton, studies of the Brownings, and books about Boston and about travels in Italy and the American West.