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Jan 229 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Public Reading, Mesmerism, and the Red Flower of Fame

Part One: The Dazzling Dozen In 1996, I published an article titled "Exploiting the Medium: Mesmerism and the Strange Case of Anna Cora...

Aug 4, 202312 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and “All That Glitters is Not Gold” - Part I

PART I: JOHN MADDISON MORTON AND HIS OTHER PLAY Originally posted Oct. 24, 2022 In any well-rounded streaming service that delivers...

Aug 3, 202314 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt in Memoria

Originally posted September 19, 2022 When I inaugurated this blog in the fall of 2019, I envisioned that one semi-regular source of...

Aug 3, 202320 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Mimic Life, and the Critics - Part III

PART III: PUBLICATION Originally posted August 22, 2022 Although January of 1856 is usually listed as the publication date of Mimic Life,...

Aug 3, 202321 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Mimic Life, and the Critics - Part II

PART II: THE PUSH Originally published August 8, 2022 [Given the response to my last entry, I am somewhat tempted to take a short...

Aug 3, 202317 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Mimic Life, and the Critics - Part I

PART I: THE PREP Originally posted July 25, 2022 Among the reasons why it is a good thing that I am no longer in the classroom is that I...

Aug 1, 202321 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and What’s In A Name

PART I: THE TIES THAT BIND Originally published March 14, 2022 Around this time last year, a well-meaning publishing company launched a...

Jul 31, 202319 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the Practical Applications of “Ion”

PART VII: ANYTHING ELLEN TREE CAN DO… Originally posted February 7, 2022 [This multi-part series of entries examines Anna Cora Mowatt’s...

Jul 29, 202316 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Pauline, and Parthenia

PART XVII: NEW ROLES, NEW MEN Originally published Sept.27, 2021 [This is a continuation of my multi-part series of entries examining...

Jul 29, 202315 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Pauline, and the Return to the U.S

Part XV: THE LADY TRANSFORMED Originally posted Sept. 13, 2021 [This is a continuation of my multi-part series of entries examining Anna...

Jul 28, 202314 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Pauline, and the Road to England

PART VII: THE CLIMB UP AND ELLEN TREE Originally posted July 19, 2021 [This is a continuation of my multi-part series of entries...

Jul 27, 202311 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Pauline, and E.L. Davenport

PART VI: DAVENPORT TRANSFORMED Originally posted June 28, 2021 [This is a continuation of my multi-part series of entries examining Anna...

Jul 5, 202311 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the Woman Who Didn’t Write “Fashion”

Originally posted on Dec. 7, 2020 Anna Cora Mowatt’s success as a playwright in the spring of 1845 was as unprecedented as it was...

Jul 3, 202310 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and The Rag-Picker of Paris

Originally published July 27, 2020 I want to start today’s entry with a complaint about standard volumes of nineteenth century theater...

Jul 2, 202312 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Her Publishers

Originally posted June 20, 2020 I came to the idea of devoting a blog entry to the topic of Anna Cora Mowatt’s publishers after reading...

Jul 2, 20237 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Her Lyrical Listeners

Originally posted April 27, 2020 An ode, as workers of crossword puzzles will know, is a type of poem addressed to a something or...

Jul 2, 20235 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the “It” Factor

Originally posted on April 13, 2020 Today, you don’t have to be a celebrity to be obsessed with your image. Right now you are probably...

Jul 1, 20236 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the Real Twinkle

Originally posted on Feb. 24, 2020 Compared to the vast behemoths that are popular and academic knowledge about Poe and Dickens, Mowatt...