Digital Bibliography for Anna Cora Mowatt
Related Websites
"The 19th Century London Stage: An Exploration Since 1995." University of Washington. Created in 1994.
This website is a work in progress by PhD students and faculty at the University of Washington. The site contains essays on performers, plays, and theaters of the era. There are also articles on subjects such as domestic life and the perspectives on women during this period.
"Chestnut Street Theatre: Opening Screen." James Wolcott.
The reconstruction of Philadelphia's historic Chestnut Street Theatre is the focus of this site. Anna Cora Mowatt performed at the Chestnut Street Theatre first as a platform reader and later as an actress.
"Review." Adrienne Onofri. 1999
"Fashion (or Life in New York) play review by Maureen Perotto." Maureen Perotto.
These two sites review contemporary productions of Mowatt's most famous work.
"The Women of Antebellum Richmond: Domestic Values and Public Ambitions." Elizabeth Woolley.
This articles briefly covers Mowatt's career and her years in Richmond, Virginia during her second marriage to William Foushee Ritchie. Among the other notable women of that city profiled is Mowatt's friend Marion Harland.
Print Resources
Blesi, Marius. "The Life and Letters of Anna Cora Mowatt," dissertation, University of Virginia, 1938.
Howitt, Mary. "Memoirs of Anna Cora Mowatt," Howitt's Journal 3 (March 5, 1848).
Mowatt, Anna Cora. Autobiography of an Actress. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1854.
Mowatt, Anna Cora. Fashion: Life in New York, a Comedy in Five Acts. New York: Samuel French, 1854.
Poe, Edgar Allan. "Anna Cora Mowatt," The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. J.A. Harrison, vol. 12. New York: Gordian Press, 1986.
Poe, Edgar Allan. Writings in The Broadway Journal: Nonfictional Prose, ed. Burton R. Pollin. New York: Gordian Press, 1986.
Ritchie, Anna Cora Mowatt. Mimic Life. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1856.
Taylor, Kelly S. "Exploiting the Medium: Mesmerism and the Strange Case of Anna Cora Mowatt." Text and Performance Quarterly 16:4.
Taylor, Kelly S. "The Rhetoric of Self-Fashioning in the Works of Anna Cora Mowatt." Ph.D dissertation, Louisiana State University, 1994.
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