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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
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>
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<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>
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Source
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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
Place
A place could be a building, a city, a location of an event, and other items of geographical reference.
Secondary Texts: Comments
Secondary sources that have explicitly commented on the respective item or raised important concerns/questions that are of interest
<p>Culkin, Hosmer's biographer comments on Cushman's household in Rome: "The female artists were friendly with one another; and many lived on Via Gregoriana."(Culkin 96)<br /><br />McAleer, the editor of Robert Browning's letters to Isabella Blagden, writes that Charlotte Cushman gave her first reception at Via Gregoriana on Jan 19, 1859 (Browning 26).<br /><br />"Her apartment on the Via Gregoriana in Rome became a mecca for theatre people, writers (such as the Brownings), and aspiring young artists" (Kleinfield, <a href="https://books.google.de/books?id=rVLOhGt1BX0C&pg=RA2-PA127&lpg=RA2-PA127&dq=happy+women+1913+powell&source=bl&ots=mcCEkPQcjg&sig=ACfU3U1t-tHXO_btUJ_IY9aGzMAo5Cd1rw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjYnq7F8OnnAhWHTcAKHbWJCr8Q6AEwDHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=charlotte%20cushman&f=false">"Charlotte Cushman"</a> 424)<br /><br />Merrill, Lisa. “Old Maids, Sister-Artists, and Aesthetes: Charlotte Cushman and Her Circle of 'Jolly Bachelors' Construct an Expatriate Women's Community in Rome.” <em>Women's Writing</em>, vol. 10, no. 2, 2003, pp. 367–84.</p>
Geocode (Latitude)
41.9039977
Geocode (Longitude)
12.485448
Admin Comment
Comments for further research, pending questions, tasks that still have to be completed
"The artist colony Charlotte and the other "Five Wise Virgins" [cf. article] had built without men was novel, even utopian. Privately, howeverm the reality was that the house was full of passionate artists who fell in and out of love with one another." (Wojczuk 135)
Dublin Core
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Title
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38 Via Gregoriana, Rome - Cushman household
Type
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Location
Reference
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
0091