Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-05
Two Emiennt Women.

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| A cable telegram announce the
death of Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt, a
lady whose career in social and stage
life is kindly remembered, especially
by our city residents. She was the
daughter of MI. Samuel Ogden, and
great granddaughter of Francis
Lewis, q signer of the Declaration of
independence. Her first husband,
James MOwatt, was a well-known
financial man, but after some reverseS
of his, Mrs. NJ. undertook to make
way for herself. She became known
in private circles as an accomplished
reader, and was urged to 90 upon the
stage. This she did at the Park
Theater, on the 18th of June, 1916, in
the character of Pauline to the Claude
of the popular and admirable actor,
MI. VIM. II. Crisp. Mrs. MoWatt's
success was complete; the prestige Of
her family connection, added 10 abso-
lutte talent, made her new career a
success from the start. She was a
conscientious and most pains-taking
artist, a roma Of rare personal
beauty, and won a respect from the
tickle public akin 10 that of her COM
peer, and to some extent rival, Julia
Dean Hayne. Mrs. MoWatt had a
grand triumph in England, where lin
her day. American artists won their
laurels far less easily than
now. In 1851, she returned
to this country and renewed her
stage triumphs, to the delight of old
and new friends, and in June, 1854,
babe our stage farewell at a grand
complimentary benefit at Niblo's, in
which a great number of the most
prominent citizens took part. Three
days alter she married William +.
Richie, of the well-knOWn Virginia
family of that name. Since then she
has resided abroad for the most of the
time, and has had little or nothing to
do with the stage. Her marriage was
not fortunate. For some time past
she has used her pen, as a ~cOrreSp0n-
dent OF San Francisco paper, writing
upon dramatic and literary topics.
Mrs. MOWatt was One of the few good
women whose stage-life was such as to
give lustre aud purity to a profession
too often abused, by q widely-diferent
class of adyenturers- With Charlotte
Cushman, Julia Dean, Mrs. Vernon,
Mrs. HOey, aud Others, she gave in
her successful career assurance that
the stage might be, and under their
influence would be, as honorable q po.
sition for good influences and proper
teaching as any other station within
the reach of woman's intellect. Her
death will be deeply deplored by
thousands of true New Workers, as
well as all who honor true woman
hood and brilliant talent.
NJ HrVnafh nF ATa.lhran Daknwu. ill
recall some incidents in the fortunes
Of the Bonaparte family. Her father,
the Hon. Thomas Wyse, a native Of
Waterford, Ireland, took an active
part in the political affairs of his eOun-
try, and was remarkable for varied
Information and classic oratory. He
married the Princess Letftia Bona
parte, a daughter of Lucien Bona
parte, u of the brothers of Napoleon.
1t is their daughter, the Princess Ma
RE StudOlmine, whose death is now
announced. She was born in London,
about 1880, and at an early age was
placed in the royal school of the Lee
giOn of Honor at st. Denis, as the
separation of her parents, whose union
had proved inielicitOus, deprived her
of her fortune. She evineed intellec-
tual qualities in youth and made
rapid progress iu her education.
In 1850 she married Frederic
de SOlms, a wealthy Alsatian,
who, however, separated from her two
years later, ON the occasion of her
being ordered to leave Paris, as she
was Objectionable to the Imperial
Government, She then retired to Sa-
vOy, where she resided under the title
of the Princess Marie de Sons, and in
intimate acquaintance with eminent
men, including Eugene Sue and Pom
sard, while she maintained CORES
Pondence with Berangef and Lamen-
nais, who retained to their death a
warm attachment for her. She passed
her time at this retreat in conducting /
a small literary Journal, to which she
contributed poetry and romantic sto-
ries, while she amused herself by tax
ing the principal part in dramatic
pieces which she had performed at the
theater of her chalet. About this
time she had published at Geneva
some minor poems called La Dupi-
made and Les Chants del E.rlee, which
were dedicated to Victor Hugo. On
the annexation of Savoy to France,
Princess Marie de Sons returned to
Paris, where she became eminent
in literary and artistic circles, and
contributed to the newspapers. She
Travelled considerably in Italy, and
was warmly received at the court,
where she met M. Urban Batazzi,
the eminent Italian Minister, whom
she married in 1862. The event did
not divert her from literary pursuits,
for while writing some large Volumes,
she conducted WOjeuruals-4he G0mr-
rier de Florence first, and then Les
Afdtiaess Hattesnes, in which, under
various assumed danes, she treated
OF music, the drama, and general lit
erature. The works of fiction of Mad
anne Ratazzi are numerous, and have
gone through several editions. Her
dramatic pieces are about eight in
number, and deal with the frivolities
of French life. f1a /