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Have started work on audiobook of #AnnaCoraMowatt's autobiography for @librivox. Now reading her description of an 1837 performance by the extraordinary #MadameVestris. #TheatreHistory #VictorianActress
The 1845 production of #CharlesDickens' "Cricket on the Hearth" was also the debut of the Keely's daughter Mary. #TheatreHistory
Here is little Tina Trueheart waiting to go onstage for the debut in the role of the baby in #CharlesDickens' "Cricket on the Hearth" in the frontispiece for Mowatt's "Mimic Life" (1854) in which her story, "The Prompter's Daughter," appears. #VictorianLiterature
The production of #CharlesDickens' "Cricket on the Hearth" described in the story "The Prompter's Daughter" by #AnnaCoraMowatt was probably based on this Dec. 1845 production at the #LyceumTheatre. #VictorianLiterature #TheatreHistory (see the little baby in the back?)
Anna Cora Mowatt and the Ill-Starred Lovers – Part I – Gustavus V. Brooke https://t.co/OD2C7bHgRY
My reading of #AnnaCoraMowatt's novel "The Fortune Hunter" (1844) is now (finally) complete and ready for (free!!) download @librivox https://t.co/hfeYhUy0MW Huzzah!!
Here's a clearer version of the illustration I used for this morning's blog on #AnnaCoraMowatt and the impact Swedenborgism had on her poetry and a link to a recording of my favorite of the poems referenced: https://t.co/aap2vHr6UF
A #Caturday picture -- this is a Dick Whittington and his Cat #ChristmasPantomime at the #LyceumTheatre in 1845. #TheatreHistory
#CharlesDickens and #EdwardBulwarLytton were close friends. Dickens served as his editor and named a son after the best-selling author who is now primarily remembered for having composed the line "It was a dark and stormy night.."