Nov 6, 202328 min readAnna Cora Mowatt, Polkamania, and “The Serious Family” - Part IIPart II -- Seriously Manic Before we begin in earnest, I must warn you that my opinions of the relative merits of “Le Mari à la Campagne”...
Jul 3, 202310 min readAnna Cora Mowatt and Mary Warner, Grand Dame of the MaryleboneOriginally published August 3, 2020 If the Watts Scandal were a musical or a movie, I would want to play Mary Warner. She may not fit our...
Jul 3, 202310 min readAnna Cora Mowatt and The Rag-Picker of ParisOriginally published July 27, 2020 I want to start today’s entry with a complaint about standard volumes of nineteenth century theater...
