Author: BUTLER, MILDRED, ALLEN.
Title: Actress in Spite of Herself. The Life of Anna Cora Mowatt.
Description: New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, Inc, 1966. 1st ed. "Anna Cora Mowatt, an actress in spite of herself, holds an important place in the American scene. She was the first woman to give public readings; she wrote the first social satire for the stage..she was the first American to make the acting profession for women respectable - proving that a lady could be an actess and an actress a lady." Pp.188. Red cloth, gilt title to front and spine, edges slightly bumped. VG.

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