"Grace Greenwood's Letter," Emancipator & Republican, Oct 10, 1850
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Title
"Grace Greenwood's Letter," Emancipator & Republican, Oct 10, 1850
Subject
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876
Lippincott, Sara Jane (pseudonym: Grace Greenwood), 1832-1904
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Praise
Description
After attending a performance in Boston, Grace Greenwood praises Charlotte Cushman as a gifted actress and "wonderful woman." The original source is the Era.
Credit
Creator
Lippincott, Sara Jane (pseudonym: Grace Greenwood), 1832-1904
Source
Emancipator & Republican
Publisher
Wilson, Damrell & Co.
Date
1850-10-10
Type
Reference
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Text
We make the following extract from one of Grace Greenwood's letter to the Era, dated at Lynn, where she has been spending a portion of the season: [...]
To return to our Boston visit. In the evening, we went with a party of friends to see Charlotte Cushman as Meg Merrilies. [...] It was throughout a magnificent display of power, and wrought one up to a fearful pitch of excitement. [...] Miss Cushman is indeed a wonderful woman. Her acting has an almost superhuman strength, as well from her great physical vigor, as from the intensity of her passion. Her voice is the outgoing of an overmastering power, – a wave of her arm has all the force of fate, her glance paralyzes and subdues. If ever an eye shot lightnings, hers does, in the scene where, as Meg Merrilies, she, with one awful look, arrests the descending blade of the smuggler. [...]
To return to our Boston visit. In the evening, we went with a party of friends to see Charlotte Cushman as Meg Merrilies. [...] It was throughout a magnificent display of power, and wrought one up to a fearful pitch of excitement. [...] Miss Cushman is indeed a wonderful woman. Her acting has an almost superhuman strength, as well from her great physical vigor, as from the intensity of her passion. Her voice is the outgoing of an overmastering power, – a wave of her arm has all the force of fate, her glance paralyzes and subdues. If ever an eye shot lightnings, hers does, in the scene where, as Meg Merrilies, she, with one awful look, arrests the descending blade of the smuggler. [...]
Location
Boston, MA, US
Geocode (Latitude)
42.3602534
Geocode (Longitude)
-71.0582912
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Citation
Lippincott, Sara Jane (pseudonym: Grace Greenwood), 1832-1904, “"Grace Greenwood's Letter," Emancipator & Republican, Oct 10, 1850,” Archival Gossip Collection, accessed April 24, 2024, https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/417.