The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906 . d heroic spirit prompted her to go on the stage for their mutualbenefit. In 1841 she gave public readings, and her signal success led topreparation for dramatic effort. Her family strenuously objected to this,but her blameless life finally conquered their prejudices. She made herd^but at the Park Theatre as Pauline in The Lady of Lyons. Herdramatic life developed her character and added new graces, and she gainedlaurels both at home and abroad. She wrote the
The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906 . d heroic spirit prompted her to go on the stage for their mutualbenefit. In 1841 she gave public readings, and her signal success led topreparation for dramatic effort. Her family strenuously objected to this,but her blameless life finally conquered their prejudices. She made herd^but at the Park Theatre as Pauline in The Lady of Lyons. Herdramatic life developed her character and added new graces, and she gainedlaurels both at home and abroad. She wrote the play called Fashion,which was performed with great success at the Park Theatre. Mr. LaurenceHutton gives Mrs. Mowatt the honor of having written the first Americanplay. Mr. Mowatt died in London in 1849, ^d in obedience to his dyingrequest, she wrote the Autobiography of an Actress, in which her lifestory is charmingly told. In 1854, having spent eight years on the stage, she retired, and mar-ried Mr. William Fouche Ritchie, editor of the Richmond made their home in a little vine-covered cottage in Richmond, Va., 156.
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