#boston evening transcript

I don’t suppose most people open an old cooler and find a newspaper from 1919! LOL

Anna Cora Mowatt, Mimic Life, and the Critics

Part III: Publication Although January of 1856 is usually listed as the publication date of Mimic Life, newspaper ads and reviews indicate that there was an initial release of the book starting in the Northeast around December 25, 1855.  This run quickly sold out, leading to the publication of blind items similar to this one that appeared in the Charlotte Democrat in the early weeks of January,…

Anna Cora Mowatt, Mimic Life, and the Critics

Part II: The Push [Given the response to my last entry, I am somewhat tempted to take a short vacation from writing about Anna Cora Mowatt and devote more time to relating my adventures in grad school with my somewhat portly portable computer.  I would give you her name, but I must confess that she did not have one. Frankly I tried to avoid emotional attachments to electronic equipment because…

Anna Cora Mowatt and Her Lyrical Listeners

An ode, as workers of crossword puzzles will know, is a type of poem addressed to a something or someone. This variety of versification was particularly popular with Victorians. They addressed verses to Grecian urns, lonely clouds, and many, many, many, to each other.

I read an article once (none of the particulars of which I can recall or I would cite it properly) that claimed that the…