Jul 13, 202310 min readAnna Cora Mowatt, Gulzara, and the Well-Made PlayOriginally posted on March 1, 2021 Parlor theatricals were a popular culture phenomenon of the Victorian era. As such they have received...
Jul 5, 202311 min readAnna 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 2, 202320 min readAnna Cora Mowatt and the Real People behind the “Fairies”Originally published June 29, 2020 At the time of this writing, I am working on a recording of an audiobook of Mowatt’s novel Fairy...
Jul 2, 20237 min readAnna Cora Mowatt and Les Doigts de FeeOriginally published on June 1, 2020 The last ten years of Anna Cora Mowatt’s life is significantly less well documented than the decades...
