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Aug 4, 202313 min read

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

PART II: GLITTERING IN ENGLAND Originally posted Nov. 7, 2022 [A full cast recording of this play is available atLibrivox ] “All that...

Aug 2, 202328 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Louise Waller – Part IV

PART IV -- IN SICKNESS AND IN WEALTH: MEN, MONEY, AND ILLNESS IN MOWATT'S NARRATIVES [CONTENT WARNING: SUICIDE] Originally posted June...

Aug 2, 202324 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Louise Waller – Part III

PART III -- LOVE, SEX, AND HEROES Originally posted June 6, 2022 The truth is the majority of people don’t really care about history. ...

Aug 2, 202321 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Louise Waller – Part II

PART II -- MOWATT, MEN, AND VILLANY Originally posted May 23, 2022 If you pick up a book about popular culture in the 19th century in the...

Jul 28, 202313 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Pauline in Cincinnati

PART VIII: PRINCE MOWATT ON THE PRAIRIE Originally posted July 26, 2021 [This is a continuation of my multi-part series of entries...

Jul 27, 20238 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Pauline, and the Deluge in Philly

PART III: WILLIAM CRISP’S FALL FROM GRACE Originally posted June 7, 2021 [This is a continuation of my multi-part series of entries...

Jul 27, 20239 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and The Lady of Lyons - Part I

THE DARING NOVICE Originally posted May 24, 2021 [This week I’m begining a multi-part series examining Anna Cora Mowatt’s experiences...

Jul 10, 20237 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Gulzara, and the Parlor Theatrical

Originally posted on Feb. 1, 2021 I have never come across any laments from theatre historians bemoaning the fact that so few scripts of...

Jul 8, 20237 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Gertrude, and Blanche

Originally published Jan. 18, 2021 [Librivox’s recording of this play can be heard here.] Although she was called upon to play the...

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 7, 20238 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Armand, and the Museum Crowd

Originally published Dec. 21, 2020 (Listen to a full cast recording of "Armand" at Librivox) Last week, I talked about the triumph of...

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 4, 202314 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the London Critics

Originally Posted Oct. 12, 2020 Actors say, “I never read reviews.” This declaration is almost never literally true. What they actually...

Jul 2, 20236 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Armand, and the Silver Vase

Originally published May 8, 2020 (Listen to an audio recording of the play "Armand" here.) Inasmuch as Anna Cora Mowatt is known in the...

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...