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Anna Cora Mowatt Bibliography
Autobiography
[A complete list of other works by Mowatt is presented on the Publications page]
Biographies Barnes, Eric Wollencott. The Lady of Fashion: The Life and Theatre
of Anna Cora Mowatt. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1954. Butler, Mildred Allen. Actress
in Spite of Herself, the Life of Anna Cora Mowatt. New York: Funk &
Wagnall’s, 1966. Taylor, Kelly S. The
Lady Actress: Recovering the Lost Legacy
of a Victorian American Superstar. Los Angles: Wapshott Press, 2009.
Dissertations Blesi, Marius. The Life and Letters of Anna Cora Mowatt. Dissertation, University
of Virginia, 1938. Frentz,Eric. Performing selves and
the theatrical imagination in antebellum America : the examples of Anna Cora
Mowatt, P.T. Barnum, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Dissertation. Michigan State
University. 1995. Taylor, Kelly S. The Rhetoric of Self-Fashioning in the Works of Anna Cora Mowatt. Dissertation. Louisiana State University, 1994.
Theses Ayers, David Hugh. An
Analysis and Production Book of Fashion, or Life in New York. Thesis. Ohio
State University, 1951. Feeney, Mary Eleanor. Anna
Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie: her life and
Dramatic Works. Thesis. Northwestern
University, 1935. Gardner, Patricia Lee. Anna
Cora Mowatt: Her Life and Career in Theater of the Mid-nineteenth Century.
Thesis. Columbia University, 1950. Haggard, Jordan Tudor. [Re]Fashioning
a means: Exploring and Adapting Anna Cora’s Fashion Through a Feminist Lens.
Thesis. University of Louisville. 2021. Lee, Winona Evelyn. Costume
designs for a production of Anna Cora Mowatt’s Fashion. Thesis. University
of Iowa, 1951. McCarty, Imogene J. Anna Cora Mowatt and Her Audience. Thesis,
University of Maryland, 1953. Piepmeier, Alison. Out in
public: configurations of women’s bodies in nineteenth-century America.
Thesis. Vanderbilt University, 1999. Schooley, Bill Jaye. Anna
Cora Mowatt: Public Reader. Thesis. Louisiana State University. 1990. Shaw, Lilly May. Nineteenth
Century Actor-Readers in America. Thesis. University of Wisconsin. 1954. Thomas, Ruth. Women
in American theatre: Jacksonian era (1829-1849). Thesis. San Diego State
University, 1993. Waller, Louise H. The
Literary Career of Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie, A Re-evaluation. Thesis.
Columbia University, 1958. Wooster-Cox, Linda Kay. Footlight
Feminists and sentimental subtitles, or Early American theatre reform by three
women: (1772- 1900). Thesis.
Texas A&M University – Commerce, 2001. Writing by Mowatt’s Contemporaries Fuller, Margret. “Woman in the
Nineteenth Century,” The Writings of
Margaret Fuller, edited by Mason Wade. New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Freeman, Julia Deane. Women
of the South Distinguished in Literature. New York: Derby and Jackson,
1861. Griswold, Rufus W. The
Female Poets of America. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1849. Hale, Sarah Josepha. Woman’s Record: or, Sketches of
Distinguished Women from the Creation to A.D. 1850. New York: Harper, 1853.
Pages 754-755. Harland, Marion. “Personal Reflections
of a Christian Actress.” Our Continent 1. (March 15, 1882.) Pages
73-74. Harland, Marion. Story
of a Long Life. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1910. Howitt, Mary. "Memoirs of Anna
Cora Mowatt," Howitt's Journal 3 (March
5, 1848). Jefferson, Joseph. The Autobiography
of Joseph Jefferson. New York: Century, 1897. Ludlow, Noah Miller. Dramatic
Life as I Found It; a Record of Personal Experience; with an Account of the
Rise and Progress of the Drama in the West and South. St. Louis: G.I. Jones & Co., 1880. Macready, William Charles. Diaries
of William Charles Macready, Vol. 2. London: Chapman and Hall, 1912. May, Caroline. American Female Poets with Biographical and Critical Notices. Philadelphia:
Lindsay and Blackinston, 1848. 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. Sargent,
Epes. The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism. (Boston: Colby and Rich,
1887.) Sargent,
Epes. The Modern Standard Drama, Vol. 1. New York: James Mowatt & Co.
1844. Thompson,
John Reuben. “A Trip to Mount Vernon.” The Petersburg Daily Express. June 2,
1858. Wise, John. “Mrs. Anna Cora Ritchie.” The Report of the Virginia Board of Visitors to Mount Vernon For the Year 1901; Showing the History of the Ladies Mount Vernon Association of the Union and Virginia’s Connection Therewith and Action of Congress and Legislature of Virginia Touching Removal and Remains of Washington. J.H. O’Bannon, Superintendent of Public Printing: Richmond, 1901. Page 57-59
Late 19th
Century Sources Berg,
Albert Ellery. The Drama, Painting, Poetry, and Song, Embracing a Complete
History of the Stage; an Exhausitve Treatise on Pictorial Art; a Choice
Collection of Favorite Poems and Popular Songs of All Nations. New York, P.F. Collier, 1884. Brown,
Thomas Allston. History of the American
Stage, Containing Biographical Sketches of Nearly Every Member of the
Profession that Has Appeared on the American Stage from 1733 to 1870. New
York: Dick and Fitzgerald: 1870. Pages 235-254. "Anna
Cora Mowatt." Duyckinck, Evert A. and Duyckinck, George, eds. Cyclopædia of American literature, Volume 2.(New York, C. Scribner,1855.) Pages 553-54. Hutton, Laurence. Curiosities of the American Stage. New York: Harper and Brothers,
1891. Ireland, Joseph Norton. Records of the New York Stages from
1750-1860. New York: T.L. Morrell & Brothers, 1866. Lawrence, William J. The Life of Gustavus Vaughn Brooke, Tragedian.
Belfast: W. & G. Baird, 1892. Mathews, Brander and Laurence Hutton,
eds. Actors and Actresses of Great
Britain and the United States; Macready and Forrest and Their Contemporaries,
Vol. IV. Boston: L.C. Page and Co.,
1886. Phelps, H.P. Players of a Century: a Record of the Albany Stage. Albany: McDonough, 1880. 20th
Century Sources Barlow,
Judith E. ed. Plays by American women: the early years. NY: Avon Books, 1981. Crawford,
Mary Caroline. Romance of the American Stage.
Boston: Little & Brown, 1913. Edgett,
Edwin Francis. Biography of Edward Loomis Davenport. New York: The Dunlap Society,
1901. Fagin, N.
Bryllion. Histrionic Mr. Poe. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1949. Fowler,
Lois J., and David H. Fowler. Revelations of Self: American Women in
Autobiography. Albany: State U of NY P, 1990 "Beauty,
Grace, and Refinement." Gabriel, Ralph Henry. The Pageant of America, a Pictorial History of the United States,
Volume 14. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. Pages 117-118. Gentile, John. Cast
of One. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Gillespie, Patti P. “Anna Cora Ogden
Mowatt Ritchie’s Fairy Fingers: From Eugene Scribe’s?” Text
and Performance Quarterly, Volume 9, number 2. Pages 125-134. Hartman, John Geoffrey. The
Development of American Social Comedy from 1787 to 1936. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania, 1939. Hornblow, Arthur A. A
History of the Theatre in America from Its Beginnings to the Present Time,
Vol. II. Philadelphia and London: J.P. Lippincott Company, 1919 Hutchisson, James M. “Poe, Anna Cora Mowatt, and T. Tennyson
Twinkle.” Studies in the American
Renaissance (1993) pp. 245-254. Keetley, Dawn. “The Power of
“Personation”: Actress Anna Cora Mowatt and the Literature of Woman’s Public
Performance in Nineteenth-Century America.” American Transcendental Quarterly 10 (1996):
187-200. Moses, Montrose J. The American Dramatist. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co., 1925. Moses, Montrose J. Famous
Actor-Families in America. New York:
T.Y. Crowell, 1906. Moses, Montrose, J. Representative Plays by American Dramatists
from 1765 to the Present Day. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1925. Murphy, Theresa. “Interpretation in
the Dickens Period.” The Quarterly Journal
of Speech, Vol. 41 (October 1955.) Pages 243-249. Odell, George. Annals of the New York Stage. 15 vols. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1927-1949. Quinn, Arthur Hobson. A History of the American Drama: From the
Beginning to the Civil War. New
York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1951. Richards, Jeffery H. “Chastity and the Stage in Mowatt’s “Stella””
Studies in American Fiction. Volume 24, no. 1 (1996.)
Pages 87-100. Scullion,
Adrienne. ed. Female playwrights of the nineteenth century. Rutland, Vt.: C.E. Tuttle, 1996. Taylor, Kelly S. "Exploiting the
Medium: Mesmerism and the Strange Case of Anna Cora Mowatt." Text and
Performance Quarterly 16:4. Thompson, David. “Early
Actress-Readers: Mowatt, Kemble, and Cushman.”
Ed. David Thompson. Performance
of Literature in Historical Perspective. New York: University Press of
America, 1983. Turner, Mary M. Forgotten Leading Ladies of the American Theatre: Lives of Eight Female
Players, Playwrights, Directors, Managers, and Activists of the Eighteenth,
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.
Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1990. Wheeler, William Ogden. The
Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown Branch, and their English Ancestry. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1907 Wilson, Arthur Herman. History of the Philadelphia Theatre. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1935. Wilson, Garff B. “Emotionalism in
Acting.” Quarterly Journal of Speech. Volume 42. Issue 1. 1956. Pages 45-54. 21st
Century Sources Braconi,
Adrienne Macki. “Fashioning Herself a
Lady: Anna Cora Mowatt’s “Bold Experiment.” Women in the Arts in the Belle Époque: Essays on Influential Arts.
Paul Fryer, ed. New York: McFarland, 2012. Faflik, David. “Fashion, France, and the Politics of Form.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American
Literature, Culture, and Theory, Volume 73, Number 3, Autumn 2017. Pages 49-75. Kunce, Catherine. The Correspondence of Sarah Helen Whitman and Julia Deane Freeman:
Writer to Writer, Woman to Woman. (Lanham, Maryland: University of Delaware
Press, 2014.) Lehman, Amy. “’Call me Gypsy’ – Anna Cora Mowatt and
Mesmerism.” Nineteenth Century Theatre
and Film. Vol. 29 (May, 2002.) Pages 49 – 65. Manuel, Carme. “Anna Cora Mowatt’s Fashion: Theatrical
Refashioning of the Female Self in Antebellum American Drama.” Revisita de Esudios Notreamericanos. No.
7 (2000). Pages 27-41. Ripley, Wendy. “Anna Cora Mowatt, Player and Playwright.” Codifying the National Self: Spectators,
Actors, and the American Dramatic Text. Barbara Ozieblo-Rajkowska, Maria
Dolores Narbona-Carrion, eds. P.I.E-Peter
Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales; New edition (May 8, 2006) Shapiro, Marilyn. “Anna Cora Mowatt: Forgotten Dramatist and
Actress.” Women’s Contribution to Nineteenth-Century American Theatre. Publicacions de la Universitat de Valencia,
2011. Pages 85-94. Stewart, David M. “The Disorder of
Libraries.” Library Quarterly. Volume
76, no. 4, 2006. Pages 403 – 419. Taylor, Kelly S. “The Creation of a
Public Persona in the Poetry of Anna Cora Mowatt.” American Periodicals, Volume 11 (2001.) Pages 65-80. Warren, Robin O. Women on Southern Stages, 1800-1865: Performance, Gender and Identity
in a Golden Age of American Theatre. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016. Zanzucchi,
Anne. "Anna Mowatt Ritchie." in Lujungquist, Kent P. ed. Antebellum
Writers in New York. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Collections of
Letters, Papers, and Ephemera Clifford Smyth Collection, New York
Public Library Hawthorne Family Papers, Stanford
University Mount Vernon Ladies Association, The
Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington Ritchie Family Papers, Earl Gregg
Swerm Library, William & Mary University Sarah Helen Whitman papers, John Hay
Library, Brown University Theatre Collection, Houghton Library,
Harvard University William Seymour Family Papers, Princeton
University Library Websites Portraits of American Women Writers Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt (Edgar Alan Poe
Society of Baltimore) Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie: a digital
theatre maker profile Introduction to “Fashion,” A Comedy in
Five Acts Radio play on the Opening Night of “Fashion”
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