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Still working on edits for novel "The Mute Singer" for . Hope to have it ready for download by the first of next week.

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2020-04-26

Have started recording novel "The Mute Singer" for .

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2020-04-19

This is not the official announcement yet, but here's where you can download "Autobiography of an Actress." https://t.co/nwcJuFLu8Z

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2020-04-11

In the chapter of autobiography I recorded for today, Mowatt relishes playing Parthenia who sweetly tames the barbarian Ingomar in a what some were calling a "woman rights" play in 1852.

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2020-04-09

Have started work on audiobook of autobiography for . Now reading her description of an 1837 performance by the extraordinary

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2020-04-03

The production of "Cricket on the Hearth" described in the story "The Prompter's Daughter" by was probably based on this Dec. 1845 production at the (see the little baby in the back?)

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2020-03-19

My reading of novel "The Fortune Hunter" (1844) is now (finally) complete and ready for (free!!) download https://t.co/hfeYhUy0MW Huzzah!!

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2020-03-11

In preparation for an upcoming blog, have been doing some research on wife of and a protegee of

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2020-03-06

Here's a clearer version of the illustration I used for this morning's blog on 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

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2020-03-03

James Mowatt died on this day in 1851. was on tour in Ireland.

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2020-02-16

Despite the fact that they were both in London at the same time, shared many interests and friends (as you can tell from the great pictures I find), I have zero / anecdotes to relate. Not sure why they never seemed to run into each other. 🤷

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2020-02-08

Here's my colorized and "prettified" version of the sketch from the Illustrated News.

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2020-02-07

A description of Mowatt at 38 from Marion Harlan: No picture I have ever seen does her even partial justice... Time had not dimmed her exquisite complexion; her hair ... in short, fair curls; her eyes were soft blue; her teeth dazzlingly white.

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2020-01-31

I'm working on pictures of Mowatt in all of her major roles. Here she is costumed as Gertrude in Act I of "Fashion."

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2020-01-28

Visualization of how Mowatt might have appeared in the role of Blanche in her 1849 play "Armand; or the Peer and the Peasant."

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2020-01-27

This is the profile from the The Illustrated American Biography (vol. 3 (1855), p. 255) portrait remixed with hair from the Harral portrait.

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2020-01-27

This portrait comes from Abner D. Jones, ed. The Illustrated American Biography, vol. 3 (1855), p. 255. I feel confident in my minor corrections to Mowatt’s brow and eyelids here because this portrait is based on the photo used for her 1854 autobiography.

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2020-01-22

Colorization of photo actress/author circa 1854. Fixed stain in the middle of her forehead. The copy comes with what purports to be a lock of her hair which seems to be more strawberry blonde rather than the auburn shade people usually describe her color.

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2020-01-22

Anna Cora Mowatt wasn't the only celebrity in her family. Her younger sister, Mary, was married to Cephas Giovanni Thompson, a well-known portrait painter.

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2020-01-22

Colorization of another Mowatt portrait I'm looking for a high rez copy of. This one is Alfred Harral's 1848 portrait for Howitt's Journal issue 63, Vol. 3.

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2020-01-21