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Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1819-1870) was an American author, actress, and playwright known for her contributions to 19th-century American literature and theater. She gained fame with her 1845 play "Fashion," a comedy that satirized the obsession with European culture among Americans. In addition to her work as a playwright, she wrote the novel "Evelyn" in 1845 and her autobiography "Autobiography of an Actress" in 1854, which detailed her experiences in the theater. Mowatt Ritchie was a pioneer for women in the performing arts, challenging societal norms and advocating for the acceptance of female artists in the public sphere.
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CHAPTER I. NOBLESSE. They were seated in the drawing-room of an ancient château in Brittany,—the Countess Dowager de Gramont and Count Tristan, her only son,—a mansion lacking none of the ponderous quaintness that usually characterizes ancestral dwellings in that locality. The edifice could still boast of imposing grandeur, especially if classed among "fine ruins." Within and without were...
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