Elizabeth Winthrop Day Moulton

Elizabeth W. (Day) Moulton died unexpectedly on July 21, 2013, in Ashby, Massachusetts. She was born in Cambridge in November ,1924, and attended Shady Hill School, Concord Academy and Radcliffe College, Class of 1946. She married Henry H. Moulton, Harvard ’46. They settled in New York City where Mrs. Moulton worked as a feature assistant on Mademoiselle magazine (where she was known as Betsy Day), and from 1949 as a free lance writer.

Her short stories appeared in Mademoiselle, Redbook, McCall’s, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She published articles in The Sewanee Review, Mademoiselle, and in Flair, American Artist, the VQR, Gourmet and other magazines. Her first novel, Fatal Demonstrations, was published by Harper & Row in 1980 under the name Elizabeth Moulton. She had completed five more by the time of her death. She was a life-long amateur watercolor painter.

Elizabeth Moulton lived in Manhattan from 1946 to 1981 where her volunteer activities included local Democratic party politics, the Radcliffe Club of New York, the New York Public School Volunteer Program, and St. George’s Church on Stuyvesant Square for which she wrote a parish history. Mr. Moulton, who worked for Fiduciary Trust International, and Mrs. Moulton moved to Los Angeles in 1981, were headquartered in London from 1985-1988, and returned from California to Cambridge in 1991.

She leaves her husband of sixty seven years, her daughters Anne W. Moulton, M.D, Sara S. Moulton, master chef and television personality, Peter H. Moulton. a judge in the New York State court system, and six grandchildren.

A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, September 7, at Christ Church, Zero Garden Street, Cambridge, at 3:00 p.m. with a reception to follow.

Memorial donations may be made to Shady Hill School, 178 Coolidge Hill, Cambridge, MA 02138, or to Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-3600