“ Her parents approved the engagement, and stipulated that the union should be postponed until she was seventeen years old. ANNA CORA MOWATT RITCHIE. The young lovers were secretly married, and the parents soon forgave them. ”

“ Her second husband died in 1868. and she went again to England, where she remained till her death. Her other works include: "The Fortune Hunter," a novel (1842) ; "Evelyn, or a Heart Unmasked: a Tale of Domestic Life" (two volumes, Philadelphia. 1845, and London, 1850) ; "The Autobiography of an Actress: or Eight Years on the Stage" (Boston, 1854) ; "Mimic Life: or Before and Behind the Curtain" (1855) ; "Twin Roses" (1857) ; "Fairy Fingers, a Novel" (New York, 1865) ”