Published Contemporary Accounts of Cushman

Cobbe's Italics: Brief Notes on Politics, People and Places in Italy (1864)

Vandenhoff's Leaves from an Actor's Note-Book; With Reminiscences and Chit-Chat of the Green-Room and the Stage, in England and America (1860)

 Dix's Lions: Living and Dead; or, Personal Recollections of the "Great and Gifted" (1854)

Mowatt's Autobiography of an Actress (1854)

Duyckinck's Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America (1872-1874)

Henry Cushman's A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans (1855)

Mrs. Walker's Reminiscences  (1876)

James Parton's Eminent Women of the Age (1869)

Wemyss's Twenty-Six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager (1847)

De Navarro's "The Girlhood of an Actress," North American Review (1895)

Excerpt from Grace Greenwood's "Sketch from Life" (1849)

Charlotte Cushman's Worth in 1869