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Jul 3, 20237 min read
The Fall of Walter Watts
Originally published Sept. 7, 2020 Doubtlessly, I have given you the impression that the Watts Scandal blew up and broke quickly in the...
Jul 3, 202310 min read
Mr. Warner and Mr. Watts
Originally posted on August 31, 2020 Last week, I ended with a bit of a cliffhanger. I informed you that Robert Warner, husband of...
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, 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, 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, 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 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,...
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