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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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