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- Tags: London
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)
Mrs. Walker's Reminiscences of the Life of the World-Renowned Charlotte Cushman (1876)
Macready's Diary – Cushman mentions (edited by Toynbee, 1912)
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Apr 7, 1856
"[...] I met Miss Cushman, on Saturday, in the Strand, and she asked me to dinner, but I could not go, being already engaged to meet another actress! I have a strange run of luck as regards actresses, having made friends with the three most prominent…
Tags: London, social capital
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Ephraim F. Miller, Mar 3, 1854
"Dear Colonel, I sent the letter to Miss Cushman. She seems to be doing wonders at the Haymarket. [...]"
Tags: London
Letter from Mary Devlin Booth to Emma Crow Cushman, Feb 26, 1862
Tags: London, public intimacy, social capital
Letter from Henry F. Chorley to Charlotte Cushman, May 8, 1847
Tags: London, social capital
Letter from Henry F. Chorley to Charlotte Cushman, Jan 27, 1847
Letter from Henry F. Chorley to Charlotte Cushman, Apr 24, 1847
Tags: gossip--unpublished, London, social capital
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Jan 3, 1854
Tags: London, Rome, social capital
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Feb 11, 1854
Tags: London, social capital
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Apr 13, 1852
Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, [July 24, 1854]
Tags: London, press coverage, social capital
Letter from Geraldine Jewsbury to Emma Stebbins, Feb 6, 1877
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to William Wetmore Story, May 31, 1858
Tags: artists abroad, London, Rome, social capital, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to the Fields family, May 23, 1860
Tags: London, public intimacy, Rome, social capital, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to the Fields Family, July 25, 1862
Tags: Civil War, London, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Sept 15, 1855
Tags: London, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Sarah Anderton [?], June 26, [no year]
Tags: admirers, gossip--unpublished, London, women's jobs
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Sarah Anderton [?], June 15, [no year]
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Charlotte Cushman
Charlotte Cushman becomes widely known on both sides of the Atlantic as the first successful US-American actress. Earlier, she was a singer under the tutelage of James G. Maeder, married to actress Clara Fisher, in Boston. Charlotte has been the sole financial support of her mother since her father…