Anna Cora Mowatt, Mimic Life, and the Critics - Part III
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PART III: PUBLICATION Originally posted August 22, 2022 Although January of 1856 is usually listed as the publication date of Mimic Life,...
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- Jul 30, 2023
- 10 min
Anna Cora Mowatt and “Ion”
PART I: THE PLAY BEGINS WITH A PUNCH Originally posted Nov. 15, 2021 [This multi-part series of entries examines Anna Cora Mowatt’s...
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- Jul 29, 2023
- 19 min
Anna Cora Mowatt, Pauline, and a Tale of Two Cities
PART XVI: THE LADY'S RECEPTION IN BOSTON AND PHILLY Originally posted September 20, 2021 [This is a continuation of my multi-part series...
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- Jul 28, 2023
- 14 min
Anna Cora Mowatt, Pauline, and the Road to England
PART VII: THE CLIMB UP AND ELLEN TREE Originally posted July 19, 2021 [This is a continuation of my multi-part series of entries...
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- Jul 28, 2023
- 10 min
Anna Cora Mowatt and Notes on G.H. Lewes’ “The Noble Heart”
Originally posted on July 12, 2021 I will return to my series on “The Lady of Lyons” next week, however, some months ago, a volunteer...
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- Jul 26, 2023
- 12 min
Anna Cora Mowatt and E.L. Davenport – Part IV
DAVENPORT – THE STORIES – Part III Originally posted on May 17, 2021 I’m going to wind up my collection of stories about E.L. Davenport...
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- Jul 26, 2023
- 12 min
Anna Cora Mowatt and E.L. Davenport – Part III
DAVENPORT – THE STORIES – Part II Originally posted May 10, 2021 The career of E.L. Davenport bears witness to the fact that the man’s...
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- Jul 26, 2023
- 11 min
Anna Cora Mowatt and E.L. Davenport – Part I
DAVENPORT, THE ACTOR Originally posted April 26, 2021 Had she not taken on Edward Loomis Davenport as an acting partner in the fall of...
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- Jul 5, 2023
- 18 min
Anna Cora Mowatt in the Forest of Arden
Originally published Nov. 16, 2020 There is perhaps no more perfect encapsulation of the ambiguity of the Victorian stance towards the...
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- Jul 5, 2023
- 10 min
Anna Cora Mowatt and Her Lady Romeos – Part II
Originally published Nov. 6, 2020 Last week, listening to several interviews with Tana Wojczuk, author of a new book on the life of...
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- Jul 4, 2023
- 6 min
Anna Cora Mowatt and the Lady Romeos – Part I
Originally published on Nov. 9, 2020 Periodically, theatre historians seem to re-discover Charlotte Cushman. A new volume on her life and...
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- Jul 4, 2023
- 14 min
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...
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- Jul 4, 2023
- 13 min
The Unsinkable Mrs. Warner
Originally published October 5, 2020 The year 1850 began so well for Mary Warner and Walter Watts. Their careers seemed to be right on...
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- Jul 3, 2023
- 10 min
Mr. and Mrs. Warner
Originally published August 24, 2023 [Just a quick note before I begin — In order to accommodate the amount of new information that I...
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- Jul 3, 2023
- 9 min
Warner/Macready and “Hamlet” at the Marylebone
Originally published August 17, 2020 As you may intuit from the title of this week’s blog, I am not yet ready to wrap up my series on...
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- Jul 3, 2023
- 10 min
Mary Warner of the Marylebone
Originally published Aug. 11, 2020 One doesn’t expect to get breaking news on a story that’s one hundred and seventy years old, but late...
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- Jul 2, 2023
- 11 min
Anna Cora Mowatt, Astor Place, and the Silver Vase
Originally published May 5, 2020 [This blog is also available in an abridged video format.] May 10, 2020 marked the 171 anniversary of...
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- Jul 2, 2023
- 3 min
Anna Cora Mowatt and the Silver Vase
Originally published May 4, 2020 I haven’t devoted a blog to the Watts scandal for some time now. It has not left my thoughts, though....
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