Anna cora mowatt biography of abraham lincoln

 March 5, 1819-1826: Anna was born in Bordeaux, France to Samuel and Eliza Lewis Ogden, both of American heritage.She was the tenth of fourteen children.

She lived her firirst seven years in France, enjoying herself and getting acquainted with the works of William Shakespeare. In 1826, her family decided to move back to New York. They got shipwrecked on their way. resulting in the death of her brother, Gabriel (Anna, 26).

Anna cora mowatt biography of abraham lincoln

They spent a few agonizing days aboard the disabled ship, wet and miserable, and stricken with grief at the loss of Gabriel. Anna would later blame this experience for the recurrent respiratory troubles that plagued her throughout her life.

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October 6, 1834: At the age of fifteen,Anna eloped with James Mowatt who was thirteen years older than she. She began to write around this time, with her first piece, a story in verse called Pelayo, or The Cavern of Covadonga, coming out in 1836.

It had a negative reception.[

October 28, 1841: She h