Autobiography of an Actress; or Eight Years on the Stage

About this film

LibriVox recording of Autobiography of an Actress; or Eight Years on the Stage by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie. Read in English by Kelly S. Taylor Anna Cora Mowatt was the author of the first Broadway comedy hit written by a woman. Her 1845 play “Fashion” is still performed today. She was also the first woman to professionally perform solo public readings of literature in the U.S. In pre-Civil War America, she was a popular novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and correspondent. Autobiography of an Actress tells the dramatic story of her life and her struggles to overcome the anti-theatrical prejudices of her day. - Summary by Kelly S. Taylor For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook 00-13 (223MB) M4B Audiobook 14-27 (179MB)

Directors & creators

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks; victorian literature; theatre history; victorian actress; biography; memoir;

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