The Lady Actress

by Kelly S. Taylor, Ph. D.

Overview

The life and times of Anna Cora Mowatt. Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson were among her fanboys, but too few people know about their idol. The Wapshott Press is honored to present the life and times of the fabulous Anna Cora Mowatt to her well deserved, and long overdue, larger audience. www.TLA.WapshottPress.com

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012599094
Publisher:	Wapshott Press
Publication date:	04/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Dr. Kelly S. Taylor, a North Carolina native, received her BFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1984), her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1990), and her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University (1994). Her primary research interest is in the history of Performance Studies. She is a professor at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.

Editorial Reviews

A very in-depth book, “The Lady Actress” took me back to a moment in time when actresses were frowned upon and called derogatory names. I could almost feel myself morphing into Anna Cora Mowatt, the person for whom the book is written. She was indeed very much a lady, even though society held a stigma regarding the proper place for women. Society has evolved so much since then, but it is interesting to see exactly how prejudice the masculine mind was back then.

Stephanie Stephanie

While the main text is fairly well written, and consistently interesting, some of the transitions between Mrs. Taylor’s text and excerpts of Mrs. Mowatt-Ritchie’s text are not as smooth as could be desired, yet those transitions were not jarring enough to dissuade an interested reader from continuing. This is one book I had a very hard time putting down. It has made me want to locate copies of Mrs. Mowatt-Ritchie’s works to read for myself.

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