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Source
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LoC, George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington
Date
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4/29/1912
Title
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher
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Bain News Service, Publisher. <cite>Elizabeth Barrett Browning</cite>. 4/29/12 date created or published later by Bain. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <br /><<a href="http://www.loc.gov/item/2014683565/">www.loc.gov/item/2014683565/</a>>
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Title
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Cushmania
Subject
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Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876
Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882
Gossip--Published
Gossip--Private
Relationships--Networks
Italy--Rome
Description
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<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>
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Source
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Library of Congress
New York Public Library
Philadelphia Historical Society
Date
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1816-00-00/1920-00
Person
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Birth Name
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Barrett
Admin Comment
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she wrote somewhere that Hays and Cushman were in a female marriage Kenyon (1889)<br /><br />edited the letters, cf. Citavi entry, CC mentions <br /><br />https://www.browningscorrespondence.com/correspondence/search/results/?submitButton=Search&keywords=cushman&dateFromDay=Any&dateFromMonth=Any&dateFromYear=Any&dateToDay=Any&dateToMonth=Any&dateToYear=Any&authorId=__ANY__&recipientId=__ANY__&correspondentId=__ANY__&sourceLocationId=__ANY__&manuscriptLocationId=__ANY__&volumeNumberId=__ANY__&docNum=<br /><br /><br />Browning was apparently friends with Tilton --> cf. Item 246<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/svPeople?people_tab=3&crumbtrail=on&formname=r&heading=h&person_id=browel&subform=1#FemaleAssociatesWomensIssues">http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/svPeople?people_tab=3&crumbtrail=on&formname=r&heading=h&person_id=browel&subform=1#FemaleAssociatesWomensIssues</a><br />Accessed 22 July, 2020<br />the following paragraph is a quote:<br /><br />
<div class="paragraph chronstruct"><strong>July-October 1852</strong> EBB returned for another visit to <a class="actionItem" href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/wheel?src_ref=browel-b.sgm&doc_type=0&&t=4:43:s" title="Settlement (city, town, village) link: London">London</a>, and then went back to <a class="actionItem" href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/wheel?src_ref=browel-b.sgm&doc_type=0&&t=4:44:s" title="Settlement (city, town, village) link: Florence">Florence</a>, travelling via <a class="actionItem" href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/wheel?src_ref=browel-b.sgm&doc_type=0&&t=4:45:s" title="Settlement (city, town, village) link: Paris">Paris</a>.<a href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/getBibcit?&dbref=4049&qtdin=&text=270, 274-5&t=6:4049" target="external" onclick="javascript:rollyRules('getBibcit?&dbref=4049&qtdin=&text=270, 274-5&t=6:4049','citation'); return false;" onkeypress="javascript:rollyRules('getBibcit?&dbref=4049&qtdin=&text=270, 274-5&t=6:4049','citation'); return false;" title="open bibliographic citation in a new window"><img src="http://orlando.cambridge.org/pics/bibcit.gif" alt=" Bibliographic Citation link. " class="BIBCIT" /></a></div>
<div class="paragraph">She spent the following summer at <a class="actionItem" href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/wheel?src_ref=browel-b.sgm&doc_type=0&&t=4:46:s" title="Settlement (city, town, village) link: Bagni di Lucca">Bagni di Lucca</a> again, and then went to <a class="actionItem" href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/wheel?src_ref=browel-b.sgm&doc_type=0&&t=4:47:s" title="Settlement (city, town, village) link: Rome">Rome</a>, via Florence, for the winter.<a href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/getBibcit?&dbref=4049&qtdin=&text=282-5&t=6:4049" target="external" onclick="javascript:rollyRules('getBibcit?&dbref=4049&qtdin=&text=282-5&t=6:4049','citation'); return false;" onkeypress="javascript:rollyRules('getBibcit?&dbref=4049&qtdin=&text=282-5&t=6:4049','citation'); return false;" title="open bibliographic citation in a new window"><img src="http://orlando.cambridge.org/pics/bibcit.gif" alt=" Bibliographic Citation link. " class="BIBCIT" /></a></div>
<div class="paragraph">During her time in Italy she came into contact with a number of other women who revered her as a successful female artist. She met actress <a class="actionItem" href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/wheel?src_ref=browel-b.sgm&doc_type=0&&t=0:183" title="Person Name link: Cushman, Charlotte">Charlotte Cushman</a> and writer <a class="actionItem" href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/wheel?src_ref=browel-b.sgm&doc_type=0&&t=0:184" title="Person Name link: Hays, Matilda">Matilda Hays</a>; she understood, accurately enough, that these two had a 'female marriage'. Another member of this tumultuous circle of women was <a class="actionItem" href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/wheel?src_ref=browel-b.sgm&doc_type=0&&t=0:185" title="Person Name link: Hosmer, Harriet">Harriet Hosmer</a>, who sculpted the Brownings's clasped hands in 1853. <a class="actionItem" href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/wheel?src_ref=browel-b.sgm&doc_type=0&&t=0:186" title="Person Name link: Stowe, Harriet Beecher">Harriet Beecher Stowe</a> visited the Brownings in Italy in the spring of 1857 and again three years later, and she and EBB exchanged many letters.<a href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/getBibcit?&dbref=4052&qtdin=&text=283, 352&t=6:4052&dbref=4050&qtdin=&text=206&t=6:4050&dbref=35850&qtdin=&text=288&t=6:35850&dbref=4051&qtdin=&text=328&t=6:4051" target="external" onclick="javascript:rollyRules('getBibcit?&dbref=4052&qtdin=&text=283, 352&t=6:4052&dbref=4050&qtdin=&text=206&t=6:4050&dbref=35850&qtdin=&text=288&t=6:35850&dbref=4051&qtdin=&text=328&t=6:4051','citation'); return false;" onkeypress="javascript:rollyRules('getBibcit?&dbref=4052&qtdin=&text=283, 352&t=6:4052&dbref=4050&qtdin=&text=206&t=6:4050&dbref=35850&qtdin=&text=288&t=6:35850&dbref=4051&qtdin=&text=328&t=6:4051','citation'); return false;" title="open bibliographic citation in a new window"><img src="http://orlando.cambridge.org/pics/bibcit.gif" alt=" Bibliographic Citation link. " class="BIBCIT" /></a>[Hewlett, Dorothy. <em>Elizabeth Barrett Browning</em>. (1952). London: Cassell, 1953: 328.
<p class="biblCitation">Markus, Julia. <em>Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning</em>. New York: Knopf, 1995: 206. </p>
<p class="biblCitation">Stowe, Harriet Beecher. <em>Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe</em>. Annie Fields ed. (1897). Boston, MA, and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1898: 288. </p>
<p class="biblCitation">Taplin, Gardner B. <em>The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning</em>. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1957: 283, 352.]</p>
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<div class="paragraph">EBB's name headed the petition organised by <a class="actionItem" href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/wheel?src_ref=browel-b.sgm&doc_type=0&&t=0:189" title="Person Name link: Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith">Barbara Leigh Smith</a> and the <a class="actionItem" href="http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/wheel?src_ref=browel-b.sgm&doc_type=0&&t=1:7" title="Organization Name link: Married Women's Property Committee">Married Women's Property Committee</a> and presented to Parliament in December 1855 to lobby for reform to married women's property law: this made use, for feminist ends, of her public position as a poet.</div>
Secondary Texts: Comments
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Kenyon (1889) edited her letters in which Charlotte Cushman was mentioned.
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Title
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Type
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Reference
Person
Identifier
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0022
Subject
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
Journalists/Writers
Italy--Rome
Relationships-- Intimate--Same-sex
Description
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In a <a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/96">letter from Elizabeth to her sister Arabel Malton Barrett from October 22, 1852</a>, Browning describes the relationship between <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/1" title="Charlotte Cushman">Charlotte Cushman</a> and <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/3" title="Matilda Hays">Matilda Hays</a> a "female marriage."<br />The Brownings lived in Italy for some time, in Florence (Casa Guidi), and in 43 Via Bocca Leone in Rome. Their correspondence with Isa Blagden repeatedly mentions Charlotte Cushman and <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/21" title="Harriet Goodhue Hosmer">Harriet Hosmer</a>, and gives insights into the Rome expatriate community.<br />Robert browning uses the abbreviation "Ba" to refer to her.