The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . was born in Bordeaux, France, in 1819,great-granddaughter of Francis Lewis, and daugh-ter of S. G. Ogden, a merchant of New York, whohad taken part in F. Mirtendas revolutionarysch
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . was born in Bordeaux, France, in 1819,great-granddaughter of Francis Lewis, and daugh-ter of S. G. Ogden, a merchant of New York, whohad taken part in F. Mirtendas revolutionaryschemes in South America, and fallen into financialdifllculties. The family remained in France till1836, and then returned to New York, where Anna,the tenth of seventeen children, was sixteen she made a runaway match with JamesMowatt, a young lawyer, who soon lost his property,and died in 1851. Her first works were Pelago, anepic (1836), and Reviewers Reviewed (1837), inwhich she retorted on her critics. Her first play, Gulzara, or the Persian Slave, was written in Eu-rope in 1838 or 1839, and produced in New York in1840. Beginning at Boston, Oct. 38, 1841, she gavepublic readings, which met with marked success, butwere followed by a serious illness. Under the pen-name of Helen Berkley she won some fame bymagazine stories and novels; TheFortune-Hunterappeared in 1843, and Evelyn in3 vols., 1845. In. March, 1845, her comedy, Fashion, was broughtout at the Park Theatre, New York, where she madeher first appearance June 13th, as Pauline in Bulwers Lady of Lyons. She became a favorite with thepublic at home, and in England acted with E. from January, 1848, to 1851, appearing inthe Hunchback, in her own plays Fashionand Armand, the latter pro-duced in 1847. In June, 1854,she left the stage, and becamethe wife of W. F. Ritchie, ed-itor of the Richmond Enquir-er, who died in 1868. The bestknown of her books, Autobi-ography of an Actress, appear-ed in 1854, and wa
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