MIMIC LIFE | The Lady Actress

Aug 3, 202335 min read

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

PART IV: THE PUSHBACK Originally posted September 5, 2022 I know that I’ve been building to the negative reaction to Anna Cora Mowatt’s...

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 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 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, 202313 min read

Mr. and Mrs. Mowatt

Originally posted Jan. 4, 2021 Dear Reader, pure of heart and mind as doubtlessly you are, I know you do not waste much time pondering...

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, 202320 min read

Anna 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 read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Les Doigts de Fee

Originally published on June 1, 2020 The last ten years of Anna Cora Mowatt’s life is significantly less well documented than the decades...

Jul 2, 20239 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the Tragic Fate of Stella

Originally posted April 6, 2020 I have just finished recording an audiobook of “Mimic Life” for Librivox.org and have been reflecting...

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, 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...

Jul 1, 20237 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Princess Zuela – Part III

Originally published Feb. 17, 2020 December 22, 1849 marked the beginning of a truly awful fourteen month period filled with tragedy,...

Jul 1, 20236 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Princess Zuela — Part II

Originally posted Feb. 10, 2020 Last week, I know that I said that I thought Anna Cora Mowatt had used “Harlequin Fairy-land,” a...

Jul 1, 20236 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Princess Zuela

Originally published Feb. 3, 2020 While researching for this blog, I found a newspaper advertisement that ran in the Sunday edition of...