Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (1819 – 1870) was an author, playwright, public reader, and actress.
Anna Cora Ogden was born in Bordeaux, France, March 5, 1819. She was the tenth of fourteen children. Her father was Samuel Gouveneur Ogden (1779 – 1860). Her mother was Eliza Lewis Ogden (1785 – 1836), the granddaughter of Francis Lewis, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. In 1826, when Anna was six years old, the Ogden family retu...
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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (1819 – 1870) was an author, playwright, public reader, and actress.
Anna Cora Ogden was born in Bordeaux, France, March 5, 1819. She was the tenth of fourteen children. Her father was Samuel Gouveneur Ogden (1779 – 1860). Her mother was Eliza Lewis Ogden (1785 – 1836), the granddaughter of Francis Lewis, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. In 1826, when Anna was six years old, the Ogden family returned to the United States.
On October 6, 1834, Anna Cora Ogden eloped with James Mowatt (1805 – 1849), a lawyer and her teacher. They moved to an estate in Flatbush, New York. Anna Cora wrote of her elopement:
Anna Cora Mowatt's first book, Pelayo, or The Cavern of Covadonga, was published in 1836, then Reviewers Reviewed in 1837 using the pseudonym "Isabel". She wrote articles which were in The Ladies' Companion and Sargent's Magazine. She wrote a six act play, Gulzara, which was published in The New World. Under the pseudonym Henry C....
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