https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/3112e6f24d00296f3851799e71c0909d.JPG 47541052540b4a89a0ed2b95f0713f74 https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/616b2086461ac4b8d2536de778b2b0eb.pdf 3a8886e7e51ddf1567e57567649844e8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cushmania Subject The topic of the resource Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882 Gossip--Published Gossip--Private Relationships--Networks Italy--Rome Description An account of the resource <p>A collection of archival material (letters, diaries, articles, auto/biographical accounts) collected from different archives (cf. <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/sources/archives/">list</a>) that showcase the life of Charlotte Cushman, one of the most successful US American actresses of the nineteenth century.</p> <p>We invite you to either look for specific items via the tag cloud at the bottom of the page or the search function at the top, <a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/items/browse?collection=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">browse all items</a> in this collection, or explore thematic compilations of selected items in our "<a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/exhibits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Exhibits</a>."</p> <h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG"><img title="Item Locations" alt="Item Locations" src="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="349.5" height="237.5" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, Dec 2021: location of items in collection, size nodes)</h6> <h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/44bccce1e23bf9efe34d0078d3cc97f0.JPG"><img title="Item Locations" alt="Item Locations" src="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/44bccce1e23bf9efe34d0078d3cc97f0.JPG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="349.5" height="324.5" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, Dec 2021: letter correspondence for items<br />that have values defined for "location sender" AND "location recipient," size nodes)</h6> <p></p> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress New York Public Library Philadelphia Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1816-00-00/1920-00 Auto/Biography Secondary Texts: Comments Secondary sources that have explicitly commented on the respective item or raised important concerns/questions that are of interest Jackson states that Charlotte "requested" (84) Stebbins to write the biography. Sharon Marcus notes that "Emma Stebbins wrote a biography of her former spouse that, with the reticence and impersonality typical of the lifewriting [during the Victorian era], made only one direct statement about their relationship: "It was in the winter of 1856-57 that the compiler of these memoirs first made Miss Cushman's acquaintance, and from that time the current of their two lives ran, with rare exceptions, side by side." But Stebbins attested to her marital connection with Cushman through the very act of writing the biography as a memoir, in her pointed exclusion of Cushman's other lovers from her account, in her detailed description of their shared apartment in Rome, and in a ten-page inventory of their pets, including dogs named Teddy and Bushie." (197) Admin Comment Comments for further research, pending questions, tasks that still have to be completed cf. Stebbins-Lanier correspondence Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stebbins's <em>Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and Memories of Her Life </em>(1878)<em><br /></em> Description An account of the resource Biography of <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/1" title="Charlotte Cushman">Charlotte Cushman</a>, written after her death by her spouse <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/2" title="Emma Stebbins">Emma Stebbins</a>. The transcribed correspondence between Stebbins and <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/225" title="Sidney Lanier">Sidney Lanier</a> (who had originally been chosen as the author of the biography) details the painstaking process of securing a publisher and locating relevant sources for this monument to Cushman's life and career. Among other things, the letters reveal that Stebbins was adamant that “that memoir […] must be written by those who loved her, lest unworthy and careless hands undertake it” (<a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/157" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Stebbins to Lanier”, 1 March 1876</a>).<br />In one letter, Stebbins laments that “we have nothing but letters and our memories” (<a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/302" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Stebbins to Lanier”, 27 March 1876</a>) – which eventually seems to have inspired the book's title. For more on this correspondence and its implications for the memory of Charlotte Cushman, see <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ang-2020-0037/html?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Of Gaps and Gossip: Intimacy in the Archive" (Katrin Horn, <em>Anglia</em>, 2020)</a>.<br />The memoir opens with a summary of Cushman's (supposed) Pilgrim ancestry and continues with a <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/487" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recollection of her youth</a>, which Cushman seems to have dictated to Stebbins before her death. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1878-00-00 Type The nature or genre of the resource Reference Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0019 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Houghton - Osgood and Company Subject The topic of the resource Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Actors and Actresses--US American Relationships-- Intimate--Same-sex Relationships--Networks Reputation Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882 Praise auto/biography gossip--published love public image (active) public intimacy respectability same-sex attraction sexuality social capital