Western Massachusetts
Ashfield
Charles Eliot Norton Commemorative Plaque, editor and critic
Charles Eliot Norton was born in Cambridge in 1827 and graduated from Harvard in 1846. He worked as a pro-Union newspaper editor during the Civil War, inaugurated the Dante Society, and was a professor of art history at Harvard. A friend of many literary luminaries, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Carlyle, and George William Curtis, Norton edited and published literary memorials of several of his literary friends. He also wrote about art, poetry, and Italian literature.
A commemorative plaque for Norton is located in the Ashfield Town Hall.
Charles Benjamin Norton, Frank Henry Norton,
and Charles Eliot Norton, ca. 1854.
Charles Eliot Norton Commemorative Plaque
Ashfield Town Hall
412 Main Street,
Ashfield, MA 01330
413.628.4441