Eliza Cook's Journal, Cushman mention, March 3, 1854
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Title
Eliza Cook's Journal, Cushman mention, March 3, 1854
Subject
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876
Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889
Praise
Actors and Actresses--US American
United States--New York City
Intimacy--As Source
Description
Creator
Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889
Publisher
John Owen Clarke
Date
1854-03-03
Type
Reference
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Text
Miss Charlotte Cushman, the principal actress in the
United States, kindly placed a box at Miss Bremer’s disposal on her return to New York, and she there witnessed her unquestionably great personations of “Meg Merrilies" and “Lady Macbeth.” Afterwards she became acquainted personally with Miss Cushman, and says of her, “I like Miss Cushman personally very much. One sees evidently in her an honest, earnest, powerful soul, which regards life and her vocation with a noble earnestness. She has, through great difficulties, made her own way to the position which, by universal recognition and by universal esteem, she now occupies. She belongs to an old Puritanic family, and after her father’s misfortunes she supported by her talent for some years her mother and her younger sister. She looks almost better in private than on the stage; the frank blue eye, the strong, clear forehead, and the honest, sensible expression of her whole demeanour and conversation make one like to be with her.”
United States, kindly placed a box at Miss Bremer’s disposal on her return to New York, and she there witnessed her unquestionably great personations of “Meg Merrilies" and “Lady Macbeth.” Afterwards she became acquainted personally with Miss Cushman, and says of her, “I like Miss Cushman personally very much. One sees evidently in her an honest, earnest, powerful soul, which regards life and her vocation with a noble earnestness. She has, through great difficulties, made her own way to the position which, by universal recognition and by universal esteem, she now occupies. She belongs to an old Puritanic family, and after her father’s misfortunes she supported by her talent for some years her mother and her younger sister. She looks almost better in private than on the stage; the frank blue eye, the strong, clear forehead, and the honest, sensible expression of her whole demeanour and conversation make one like to be with her.”
Provenance
Hathi Trust, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.30000093206211. Accessed May 28, 2019.
Location
London, UK
Geocode (Latitude)
51.5073219
Geocode (Longitude)
-0.1276474
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Citation
Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889, “Eliza Cook's Journal, Cushman mention, March 3, 1854,” Archival Gossip Collection, accessed May 3, 2024, https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/492.