Jul 1, 20236 minAnna Cora Mowatt and the Real TwinkleOriginally posted on Feb. 24, 2020 Compared to the vast behemoths that are popular and academic knowledge about Poe and Dickens, Mowatt...
Jul 1, 20237 minAnna Cora Mowatt and Princess Zuela – Part IIIOriginally published Feb. 17, 2020 December 22, 1849 marked the beginning of a truly awful fourteen month period filled with tragedy,...
Jul 1, 20236 minAnna Cora Mowatt and Princess Zuela — Part IIOriginally posted Feb. 10, 2020 Last week, I know that I said that I thought Anna Cora Mowatt had used “Harlequin Fairy-land,” a...
Jul 1, 20236 minAnna Cora Mowatt and Princess ZuelaOriginally published Feb. 3, 2020 While researching for this blog, I found a newspaper advertisement that ran in the Sunday edition of...
Jul 1, 20233 minAnna Cora Mowatt and the Undimmed MirrorOriginally posted Jan. 27, 2020 As I have said before, the Watts scandal did not catch fire in the U.S. like it did in England....
Jul 1, 20234 minAnna Cora Mowatt and the Profitable Pursuit of PoetryOriginally published on Jan. 20, 2020 I have devoted a considerable portion of the last week to preparing recordings of three of Mowatt’s...