Aug 2, 202328 min readAnna Cora Mowatt and Louise Waller – Part IVPART IV -- IN SICKNESS AND IN WEALTH: MEN, MONEY, AND ILLNESS IN MOWATT'S NARRATIVES [CONTENT WARNING: SUICIDE] Originally posted June...
Aug 2, 202321 min readAnna Cora Mowatt and Louise Waller – Part IIPART 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 13, 202310 min readThe Lost Plays of Walter Watts – “Which is the King?” Part IOriginally posted on Feb. 22, 2021 Admittedly, my title for this series of entries is a bit hyperbolic. It’s closer to the truth to say...
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...
