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The Lady of Fashion, The Life and the Theatre of Anna Cora Mowatt
The Lady of Fashion The Life and the Theatre of Anna Cora Mowatt Author:Eric Wollencott Barnes Anna Cora Mowatt--actress, and author of Fashion (one of the few American plays of the nineteenth century which is still worth reading or seeing)--is fascinating on many grounds. Her life was an unexampled public triumph and a profound private tragedy. She was the first American woman of society to make the stage a profession, and, by her wit an... more »d charm and force of character, shift the position of actress from social leper to social lioness. She broke down forever the prejudice of London critics and public against American plays and players. More than all these, her romantic beauty and personality left a permanent impress on those who knew her--her friends, her audiences, her fellow-actors, even her critics.« less