Favorable Accounts 1840-1920
This part exhibits accounts published between 1840 and 1920 that are predominently positive. They speak to Cushman's character as well as to her career. For earlier accounts that refer to her ambitions in England, please visit the exhibit for transatlantic success.
Waters's Charlotte Cushman (1882)
Barrett's Lecture "Charlotte Cushman" (1889)
Mary Howitt's An Autobiography (1889) edited by daughter
Howitt's Article: The Miss Cushmans (1846)
Price's A Life of Charlotte Cushman (1894)
Reed's and Powell's Happy Women (1913)
Howe's Memories of a Hostess (1922)
Memories of a Hostess (1922)
Cobbe's Italics: Brief Notes on Politics, People and Places in Italy (1864)
Rome's Role: Networking, Reputation Management, American Women's Independence
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Mrs Stowe and Her Neighbors in Rome," Lowell Daily Citizen and News, July 23, 1860
Stebbins's Biography
Mowatt's Autobiography of an Actress; or, Eight Years on the Stage (1854)
"Letters from the Capital," by Grace Greenwood (National Era, 1852)
Bradford's "Charlotte Cushman" (1925/1932)
The New York Herald, Cushman as a Rising Star, October 31, 1843
Public Ledger, Sept 7, 1843
Bessie Rayner Belloc's A Passing World (1897)
Poem "Miss Charlotte Cushman," 1871
"Interesting to the Ladies," Home Journal, March 4, 1854
"Our Sanitary Fair in Rome," The Methodist, Apr 2, 1864
Eliza Cook, Broadway Journal, Nov 1, 1845 (repr. 1943)
"Charlotte Cushman at Rome," Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, March 9, 1876
"Products of New England," Lowell Daily Citizen and News, March 30, 1871
"Charlotte Cushman's First Appearance in England," Harper's Bazar, March 18, 1876
"Charlotte Cushman," Harper's Weekly, March 4, 1876
"Charlotte Cushman," Harper's Bazar, Nov 14, 1874
"Harriet Hosmer – Charlotte Cushman," Coleman's Rural World, Aug 15, 1868
"Harriet Hosmer and Charlotte Cushman at Rome," Chicago Tribune, March 8, 1868
"Miss Hosmer and Charlotte Cushman," Banner of Light, Aug 15, 1868
"Rome – Charlotte Cushman and Harriet Hosmer in the Eternal City," Republican Banner, March 10, 1867
"Rome Gossip," Daily Ohio Statesman, March 15, 1867
"Memories of Three Great Women," New-York Tribune, Jul 21, 1890
"A Gallant Army of Famous Spinsters," Daily Picayne, June 2, 1895
"Famous Old Maids," Morning Oregonian, July 19, 1895
"The New England Girl," The Woman's Voice, Jan 17, 1895
"Miss Charlotte Cushman," Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, [1851]
"Grace Greenwood in Italy," New Hampshire Statesman, Apr 16, 1853
"The Weekly Record," Howitt's Journal, Vol 1, 1847
"Grace Greenwood's Letter," Emancipator & Republican, Oct 10, 1850
Biographical sketch of Charlotte Cushman in The New York Dramatic Mirror (published after her death)
Athenaeum, Cushman Mentions, Jan-June 1845 (Vol. 1)
Athenaeum, Cushman Mentions, July-Dec 1845 (Vol. 2)
Northern Star about Charlotte Cushman, June 28, 1845
Eliza Cook's Journal, Cushman mention, March 3, 1854
Eliza Cook's Journal, Poem Addressed to Cushman, January 26, 1850
Poem by Eliza Cook Dedicated to Charlotte Cushman, July 30, 1853
Grace Greenwood in Response to New England Festival, undated
"Miss Cushman", Glasgow Herald, May 11, 1846
"Haymarket Theatre", Caledonian Mercury, Jan 5, 1846
"Charlotte Cushman as she was, and as she is", Spirit of the Times, Mar 15, 1851
"Queen's Theatre.— Miss Cushman. 'The Scornful Lady.'", Manchester examiner and times, Jan 2, 1849
"Theatres, etc.", Era, Oct 10, 1847
"Poetry. Poetical Dedication of a Volume", Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser, Nov 30, 1848
"The Misses Cushman", Manchester Times, Jan 22, 1847
Cushman's Transatlantic Success, New York Daily Herald, March 21, 1845
Cushman's Transatlantic Success, New York Daily Herald, March 21, 1845
"MISS CUSHMAN", Glasgow Herald, Jun 4, 1858
"Old Maids," Woman's Voice and Public School Champion, Jan 25, 1896
"Charlotte Cushman's Grave," Evening Bulletin, May 19, 1882
In "Rome – Foreign Correspondence of the Boston Post," the Boston Post describes Hosmer and Cushman as expert riders with muscular physique