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Anna Cora Mowatt's life in detail

If you are interested in more facts about this women's life or want to add more to this article, this is a link you need... - Epousesquecido 14:53, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.comm.unt.edu/histofperf/ACM1.htm


--- Is that Kristin or Richie who posted that link? I've got a better one, because Dr. Kelly S. Taylor has posted the pages online at a new host just tonight, and these actually work: http://alphacentauri2.info/AnnaCoraMowatt/Anna%20Cora%20Mowatt%20--%20Main%20Page.htm -Some upgrades are in the works, and if anyone's been stymied finding an online source for something about Mrs. Mowatt, Dr. Taylor might be able to supply - her dissertation was on ACM, and I believe it's fair to say that she's the foremost living scholarly authority on the subject. She's considering making a .pdf of a chapter from her book, The Lady Actress, available... 96.37.252.235 (talk) 03:17, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I should have been explicit in my remarks above that the article has had to make do with Wayback links in recent years to (extensively) reference Dr. Taylor's work. The site linked above is updated by her, w/ more pictures and larger, and a number of new scholarly references that didn't exist as of the last update in 2007 added to the bibliography page with plans to reorganize to make clear what's not bibliographical to her research and the pages, but other sources available. There's a .pdf of an excerpt of her book/dissertation, "The Lady Actress: Recovering the Lost Legacy of a Victorian American Superstar" (http://www.tla.wapshottpress.com/) somewhere, and she plans to track that down and link, too, soon.

Disclosure according to whatever Wikipedia policy: she lives next door, and we share a wireless internet connection. I'm trying to talk her into coming here and having a look at the article, so to avoid confusion if she takes an interest...

96.37.252.235 (talk) 19:28, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]