Katharine Susan Anthony

Biographer Katharine Anthony judges this to be MOW 's finest play.

Her biographer, Katharine Anthony , finds her plays influenced by the classic models of Molière and Shakespeare ; astonishingly confident, if sometimes crass, in their satirical realism; and written with feeling as well as thought.

Her biographer calls it dull.

The Defeat, which came out in two instalments in the Boston Gazette the next year, is, according to biographer Katharine Anthony , much simpler and more literal in language, imagery, and subject matter than...

An Advertisement pretends to complain that the important business of entertainment is currently being inconveniently interrupted by politics. Its irony, however, is contradicted by a prologue quoting Pope on the use of satire as an...

The three-act satire on the Sans Souci Club and on Boston social life in general, entitled Sans Souci, alias Free and Easy (1785), is unmentioned by Anthony but is attributed to MOW in standard library...

MOW was probably writing poems as early as she was writing drama. Her collected volume of Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous, 1790, shows that she was composing poetry well before the Revolution. She dates a...