Anna cora mowatt biography of barack
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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (March 5, 1819 - July 21, 1870) was an American poet, playwright, and actress.[1]
Life[]
Childhood and education[]
Mowatt was born Anna Cora Ogden in Bordeaux, France,[1] the 10th of 14 children. Her father was Samuel Gouveneur Ogden (1779-1860), an American merchant. Her mother was Eliza Lewis Ogden (1785-1836), granddaughter of Francis Lewis, a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence.
In 1826, when Anna was 6 years old, the Ogden family returned to the United States.[2]
She attended private schools but was primarily educated at home. From a young age she was encouraged to read and showed a passion for writing and acting.
Career[]
On October 6, 1834, at age 15, Anna eloped with James Mowatt (1805-1849), a prominent and wealthy New York lawyer. They moved to an estate in Flatbush, New York, where her husband encouraged her to continue her education and to write.[3] She wrote of her
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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie was a French-born American author, playwright, public reader, actress, and preservationist. Her best known work was the play Fashion, published in 1845. Following her critical success as a playwright, she enjoyed a successful career on scen as an actress. Her Autobiography of an Actress was published in 1853. Anna Cora Mowatt played a huvud role in lobbying and fundraising during the early years of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, the oldest national historic preservation organization in the United States.
Anna Cora Ogden was born in Bordeaux, France, on March 5, 1819. She was the tenth of fourteen children. Her father was Samuel Gouveneur Ogden (1779–1860), an American merchant. Her mother was Eliza Lewis Ogden (1785–1836), granddaughter of Francis Lewis, a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence. In 1826, when Anna was six years old, the Ogden family returned to the United States. She attend
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The esteemed playwright, actress, and orator was born in New York in the year 1819, the daughter of Samuel Ogden, a wealthy merchant, and Eliza Lewis Ogden, whose grandfather, Francis Lewis, had signed the Declaration of Independence. As a result of her families good connections and wealth, she received a great deal of education in private schools and independent tutoring. The family encouraged her to write, and she began crafting pieces in childhood. After marrying a well-off lawyer named James Mowatt when she was only fifteen, she entered into society and maintained a social circle of a high pedigree. This comfortable position was threatened after the economic crash of 1837, which nearly wiped out the couple’s fortune, as James Mowatt had participated in risky stock speculations and contracted an illness that compromised his sight and made it impossible for him to work in his law practice[1].
Facing ruin, Anna Cora Mowatt took matters into her own hands. While she had alway