WALTER WATTS | The Lady Actress 3/3

Jul 3, 202310 min read

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...

Jul 3, 20239 min read

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...

Jul 3, 202310 min read

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...

Jul 3, 202310 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Mary Warner, Grand Dame of the Marylebone

Originally 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 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, 20237 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the Cynical Mr. Stirling

Originally Posted on July 17, 2020 If I had written the story of the Watts Scandal as a melodrama and wished to cast it from the pool of...

Jul 2, 202313 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Walter Watts’ Irish Engagement

Originally posted July 6, 2020 This week I’m going to take a little break from a narrow focus on Anna Cora Mowatt and talk about the one...

Jul 2, 20236 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the Art of Crisis Communication

Originally posted May 16, 2020 As he lay dying, James Mowatt gave his wife three sealed letters. One contained detailed instructions on...

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 2, 202311 min read

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...

Jul 2, 20233 min read

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....

Jul 2, 20237 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Her Lyrical Listeners

Originally posted April 27, 2020 An ode, as workers of crossword puzzles will know, is a type of poem addressed to a something or...

Jul 2, 20235 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the “It” Factor

Originally posted on April 13, 2020 Today, you don’t have to be a celebrity to be obsessed with your image. Right now you are probably...

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, 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 2, 20238 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the Luck of the Irish

Originally published March 9, 2020 Although he’s been dead for almost one hundred and seventy years now, Walter Watts does not cease to...

Jul 2, 20236 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and the Great Hereafter

Originally posted March 2, 2020 If you were to sit down right now and write a story or screenplay set in Heaven, what sort of place would...

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...