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3 unusual facts about Anna Cora Mowatt


Anna Cora Mowatt

On June 7, 1853, Anna married William Foushee Ritchie (? – 1868), son of Thomas Ritchie.

She performed leading roles in Shakespeare (for instance, in a production of Cymbeline in London, 1843), melodramas, and her own plays.

Mowatt

Anna Cora Mowatt (1819–1870), author, playwright, public reader, and actress


Francis Lewis

His great-great-great grandson was Hollywood director William A. Wellman, and his great-granddaughter was author and actress Anna Cora Mowatt.


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