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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie - Italian Life and Legends

Single Author Collections,

22-05-2022

A mix of short works written by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie during her residence in Florence from 1864-65, this collection was edited and prepared for publication by her sister, Mary Thompson, wife of artist, Cephas Giovanni Thompson, after her death. It contains short stories, leg...

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie - The Mute Singer, a Novel

Published 1800 -1900,

09-04-2022

Sylvie de la Roche is the daughter of a destitute former nobleman and his wife living in the slums of Paris circa 1847. Her magnificent singing voice is discovered by the irascible, but equally impoverished, old musician, Maître Beaujeu. Under his guidance and training, she is w...

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08:19:35

Аудіокнига Gulzara; or The Persian Slave

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie - Gulzara; or The Persian Slave

Romance,

11-04-2022

“Gulzara, The Persian Slave” is a rare example of a script for a Victorian melodrama that was intended as a private theatrical – to be performed by a limited cast of amateurs in a home or school, not on a public stage. Rarer still, “Gulzara” was written by a female author to be ...

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

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Аудіокнига The Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie - The Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society

Published 1800 -1900,

27-06-2022

Mowatt wrote The Fortune Hunter to be submitted to a contest held by the New World newspaper. (The novel won the $100 prize.) Contest rules dictated that the title of the work, that the setting had to be New York, and that the text had to be completed within six months. So, recy...

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

07:29:04

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie - Fairy Fingers

Published 1800 -1900,

18-06-2022

Madelaine is the poor cousin of the aristocratic de Gramont family in France of the 1850’s. She is cherished by the beautiful young Bertha and secretly the beloved of the handsome Maurice, but she is barely tolerated by the haughty old countess. When her uncle’s scheming manages...

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

22:28:41

Аудіокнига Armand; or The Peer and The Peasant

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie - Armand; or The Peer and The Peasant

Drama,

09-05-2022

Although almost completely obscure today, this romantic melodrama was arguably a bigger hit for actress/playwright Anna Cora Mowatt than her theatre history-making comedy “Fashion” (1845.) Wisely cashing in on the craze for settings and characters made popular by Alexander Dumas’...

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

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Аудіокнига Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie - Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain

Published 1800 -1900,

05-04-2022

Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain is a collection of three narratives about life in the theater based on Mowatt’s career on stage. The stories, “Stella,” “The Prompter’s Daughter,” and “The Unknown Tragedian” reveal the every-day challenges faced by Victorian theatrica...

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

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Аудіокнига Autobiography of an Actress; or Eight Years on the Stage

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie - Autobiography of an Actress; or Eight Years on the Stage

Performing Arts, Memoirs,

07-04-2022

Anna Cora Mowatt was the author of the first Broadway comedy hit written by a woman. Her 1845 play “Fashion” is still performed today. She was also the first woman to professionally perform solo public readings of literature in the U.S. In pre-Civil War America, she was a popular...

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

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