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s e	Anna Cora Mowatt was the author of the first Broadway comedy hit written by a	3 y
■■ s	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	a
	pre-Civil War America, she was a popular novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and	s
	correspondent. Autobiography of an Actress tells the dramatic story of her life	►
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3	Cover image: Image of the actress from Howitts Journal, 1848.
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