https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/e736435beb760aeb49e6464ef862fbed.pdf 8f71bbb4e659923708fd3c8d4a5efe8d 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 Annotations annotations added by someone other than members of the project's researcher team; those annotations may have been added by the producer/creator of the item, an archivist, or by another researcher who had access to the archival material; may be specified as known or suspected due to context and content [added in ink on the first page, left top hand corner] written in 1918 when Mrs. Cushman was 78 years old. Admin Comment Comments for further research, pending questions, tasks that still have to be completed mentions WIlliam Winter mentions Dr. Bellows from whom we hae a newspaper article =President of the US Sanitary Commission 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 Emma Crow Cushman's Memoir about Charlotte Cushman: "A Memory" (1918) Description An account of the resource <p>Emma Crow Cushman emphasizes that she knew Charlotte Cushman "intimately." Emma and Charlotte met in 1858 when Charlotte brought two letters of introduction (by Hosmer and Kemble) to her father in St. Louis. Emma describes her as a "great artist and still greater woman." The first of Charlotte's plays which Emma witnessed was <em>Romeo and Juliet</em> (Charlotte as <em>Romeo</em> and Mary Devlin as <em>Juliet</em>): "Miss Cushman as Romeo seemed the incarnation of the ideal lover and realized all the dreams that had flitted through a girl's fancy. [...] It has been much questioned whether a woman can ever play the part of a man acceptably or so that her sex is forgotten, but Miss Cushman's success in this character of Romeo proves that in her case at least, there was no failure."<br />Emma mentions the many obstacles that Charlotte encountered on her way and she bases her account of Charlotte's earlier years on conversations with Sallie. In Rome, Charlotte was a "hostess" of a "salon" for which different people from all social ranks gathered in Charlotte's house in Rome. Emma's account includes a Cushman quote every now and then to adhere to the intimacy claim of the beginning. She also quotes from a letter that Charlotte sent in January 1861. Emma characterizes Charlotte as a hard-working, patriotic, and generous genius unlike any other actor or person.<br />She contradicts "some autobiographies written in which many misrepresentations have been made, notably one in which the writer says Miss Cushman's penuriousness was great, and that she was hated by those with whom she acted." Again, Emma gives proof by quoting from a letter. Even when she talks about Charlotte's private life, Emma stresses the significance of work. She devotes several pages to the friendship between William Seward, Secretary of State (Lincoln), and Charlotte. The latter wanted the correspondence between them to be destroyed. In terms of friendships, Emma states that Charlotte "had a genius for friendship."<br />Emma comments on a current shift of what is considered private/public: "The letters which Miss Cushman wrote to her friends were almost too intimate to publish, even in these days when nothing is too private or too sacred to be withheld from the public [...]."</p> <h3><strong>Credit</strong></h3> <a href="https://www.loc.gov/">Library of Congress</a>, <span>Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.</span> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cushman, Emma Crow, 1839-1920 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived LoC, CCP 15:4019-4036 Type The nature or genre of the resource Reference Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0483 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1918-00-00 Subject The topic of the resource Cushman, Emma Crow, 1839-1920 Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Mercer, Sallie Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908 Kemble, Frances "Fanny" Anne, 1809-1893 Gender Norms Friendship Relationships--Networks Relationships-- Intimate--Same-sex Intimacy--As topic Intimacy--With Subjects Actors and Actresses--US American Patriotism Praise Italy--Rome Civil War financial concerns gender norms/bending love travel/touring women's jobs