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Aug 2, 202321 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Louise Waller

PART I: MOWATT'S WOMEN Originally posted May 9, 2022 A Master’s thesis is really a horrid sort of little document. In the Humanities,...

Jul 7, 20239 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Armand, and Uncle Sam

Originally published on Dec. 28, 2020 (Listen to a full cast recording of "Armand" at Librivox) Perhaps the most incredible thing that I...

Jul 5, 202310 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Her Lady Romeos – Part II

Originally published Nov. 6, 2020 Last week, listening to several interviews with Tana Wojczuk, author of a new book on the life of...

Jul 4, 20236 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the Lady Romeos – Part I

Originally published on Nov. 9, 2020 Periodically, theatre historians seem to re-discover Charlotte Cushman. A new volume on her life and...

Jul 2, 202310 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the Ill-Starred Lovers – Part III

Originally Posted March 30, 2020 Despite the fact that at the time I am writing, the story “The Unknown Tragedian” is around one hundred...

Jul 2, 20237 min read

ACM and the Ill-Starred Lovers

Part II – Avonia Jones Originally published March 23, 2020 If you, Reader, are a young Theatre History or Performance Studies student,...

Jul 2, 20235 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the Ill-Starred Lovers

Part I - Gustavus V. Brooke Originally published March 16, 2020 In keeping with the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, I want to come back...