Newspapers and Magazines
Please see below a list of interesting press accounts that cover various aspects of Cushman's life and career.
Boston Evening Transcript, October 31, 1843
Boston Evening Transcript, Macready and Cushman, November 14, 1843
Boston Evening Transcript, Cushman's voice, December 14, 1843
Weekly Council Bluffs Bugle, Stebbins and Cushman mention, October 26, 1859
Farmer's Cabinet, Hosmer and Cushman mention, February 2, 1859
Albany Evening Journal, Hosmer and Cushman mention, January 21, 1859
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Mrs Stowe and Her Neighbors in Rome," July 23, 1860
Howitt's Article: The Miss Cushmans (1846)
Poem by Cushman about Macready, The Anglo American, Jan 1844
Poem by Cushman about Macready, The Anglo American, Jan 1844
Farewell Performance: As You Like It, May 9, 1852
Academy of Music: Farewell Performance 1874
"Cushmania" Cartoon
The New York Herald, Cushman as a Rising Star, October 31, 1843
New York Times, Stebbins and Cushman, Aug 31, 1860
New York Times, Stebbins and Cushman, Aug 31, 1860
Boston Evening Transcript, False Reports, November 16, 1843
Pennsylvania Inquirer and National Gazette, Oct 14, 1843
Pennsylvania Inquirer and National Gazette, Sept 30, 1843
Pennsylvania Inquirer and National Gazette, Feb 1, 1843
Pennsylvania Inquirer and National Gazette, False Reports, Nov 1, 1843
The New York Herald, May 15, 1843
The New York Herald, Jan 15, 1843
The New York Herald, Macready and Cushman, Oct 26, 1843
Pennsylvania Inquirer and National Gazette, Sept 08, 1843
Public Ledger, Sept 7, 1843
Pennsylvania Inquirer, Oct 21, 1843
Vermont Gazette, Nov 28, 1843
"Letters from the Capital," by Grace Greenwood (National Era, 1852)
Public Ledger, Charlotte Cushman - Edmonia Lewis, Nov 18, 1867
Cushman's "Lines" about Shakers (1853)
Poem "Miss Charlotte Cushman," 1871
Letter from Henry Alden to Charlotte Cushman, Nov 3, 1874
"A Nice Party," Daily Evening Star, Washington DC, Feb 25, 1853
"A Dangerous Party," Portsmouth Inquirer, Ohio, March 11, 1853
"Interesting to the Ladies," Home Journal, March 4, 1854
"Products of New England," Lowell Daily Citizen and News, March 30, 1871
"Charlotte Cushman at Rome," Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, March 9, 1876
Note from Eliza Cook, Broadway Journal, Nov 1, 1845 (repr. 1943)
"Our Sanitary Fair in Rome," The Methodist, Apr 2, 1864
"Rome Gossip," Daily Ohio Statesman, March 15, 1867
"Rome – Charlotte Cushman and Harriet Hosmer," Republican Banner, March 10, 1867
"Plain Girls," Salt Lake Daily Telegraph, Dec 19, 1867
"Miss Hosmer and Charlotte Cushman," Banner of Light, Aug 15, 1868
"Harriet Hosmer and Charlotte Cushman at Rome," Chicago Tribune, March 8, 1868
"Harriet Hosmer – Charlotte Cushman," Coleman's Rural World, Aug 15, 1868
"Charlotte Cushman," Harper's Bazar, Nov 14, 1874
"Charlotte Cushman," Harper's Weekly, March 4, 1876
"Charlotte Cushman's First Appearance in England," Harper's Bazar, March 18, 1876
"Memories of Three Great Women," New-York Tribune, Jul 21, 1890
"A Gallant Army of Famous Spinsters," Daily Picayne, June 2, 1895
"Famous Old Maids," Morning Oregonian, July 19, 1895
"The New England Girl," The Woman's Voice, Jan 17, 1895
"Miss Charlotte Cushman," Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, [1851]
"Grace Greenwood in Italy," New Hampshire Statesman, Apr 16, 1853
"The Weekly Record," Howitt's Journal, Vol 1, 1847
Biographical sketch of Charlotte Cushman in The New York Dramatic Mirror (published after her death)
"Grace Greenwood's Letter," Emancipator & Republican, Oct 10, 1850
"Personal Intelligence," The New York Herald, July 8, 1860
"Actresses Unhappy Wives," Port Jervis Evening Gazette, Oct 15, 1870
Athenaeum, Cushman Mentions, Jan-June 1845 (Vol. 1)
The Northern Star, Cushman Arriving in England, Dec 14, 1844
Athenaeum, Cushman Mentions, July-Dec 1845 (Vol. 2)
Northern Star about Charlotte Cushman, June 28, 1845
Eliza Cook's Journal, Cushman mention, March 3, 1854
Eliza Cook's Journal, Poem Addressed to Cushman, January 26, 1850
Grace Greenwood in Response to New England Festival, undated
"Pistols for Two", The Freeman's Journal, Dec 22, 1842
"The Connoisseur", The Northern Star, Aug 16, 1845
"Haymarket Theatre", Caledonian Mercury, Jan 5, 1846
"Theatre Royal", The Freeman's Journal, Mar 17, 1846
"Miss Cushman", Glasgow Herald, May 11, 1846
"Reviews", Liverpool Mercury, Aug 16, 1846
"First Impressions of Cushman's Romeo", People's Journal, Vol 2, July 18, 1846
"Provincial Theatres and Gossip", The Era, Aug 2, 1846
"The Theatres", The Era, Jan 4, 1846
"Miss Cushman's Romeo", Era, June 21, 1846
"The Connoisseur", Northern Star, Aug 15, 1846
"'Brief Chronicler of the Times'", Manchester Times, May 14, 1847
"The Misses Cushman", Manchester Times, Jan 22, 1847
"A Real Romeo", Northern Star, Jan 9, 1847
"America", Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser, Oct 13, 1849
"Rogers (the poet) and the Misses Cushman", Northern Star, Dec 8, 1849
"Poetry. Poetical Dedication of a Volume", Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser, Nov 30, 1848
"Theatres, etc.", Era, Oct 10, 1847
"Queen's Theatre.— Miss Cushman. 'The Scornful Lady.'", Manchester examiner and times., Jan 2, 1849
"Fashionable Intelligence", Freeman's Journal, Sept 19, 1850
"United States", Daily News, Oct 20, 1851
"Foreign Intelligence", Belfast News-Letter, Jun 30, 1852
"California", Jackson's Oxford Journal, Aug 30, 1851
"Miss Cushman", Era, Feb 1, 1852
"Foreign Intelligence", Liverpool Mercury, Jun 1, 1852
"Charlotte Cushman as she was, and as she is", Spirit of the Times, Mar 15, 1851
"Foreign Intelligence", Manchester examiner and times, May 29, 1852
"'Brief Chronicler of the Times'", Manchester Times, May 14, 1847
"The Misses Cushman", Manchester Times, Jan 22, 1847
"A Real Romeo", Northern Star, Jan 9, 1847
"America", Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser, Oct 13, 1849
"Rogers (the poet) and the Misses Cushman", Northern Star, Dec 8, 1849
"Theatres, etc.", Era, Oct 10, 1847
"Queen's Theatre.— Miss Cushman. 'The Scornful Lady.'", Manchester examiner and times, Jan 2, 1849
Busts for Music Hall, Ladies' Repository, May 1868
Busts for Music Hall, Ladies' Repository, May 1868
Stebbins as Cushman's Traveling Companion, Rocky Mountain Husbandman, June 8, 1876
Stebbins as Cushman's Traveling Companion, Rocky Mountain Husbandman, June 8, 1876
Cushman and Hays Performing Together, Era, Nov 19, 1848
Cushman and Hays performing Together, Era, Nov 19, 1848
Stebbins as Cushman's Protege, Liberator, April 1, 1864
Stebbins as Cushman's Protege, Liberator, April 1, 1864
Cushman's Transatlantic Success, New York Daily Herald, March 21, 1845
Cushman's Transatlantic Success, New York Daily Herald, March 21, 1845
"TO MISS CUSHMAN'S PERSONIFICATION OF ROMEO", Liverpool Mercury, Aug 14, 1855
"TO MISS CUSHMAN.—HELENA'S SONG", Liverpool Mercury, Aug 21, 1855
"Amusements", Bristol Mercury and Western Counties Advertiser, Feb 24, 1855
"TO CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN, ON SEEING HER PLAY "BIANCA," IN MILMAN'S TRAGEDY OF "FAZIO"", Eliza Cook's Journal,[no date], 1853
"LOCAL INTELLIGENCE", Liverpool Mercury, Dec 6, 1853
"IMPROMPTU. TO CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN", Eliza Cook's Journal, July 30, 1853
"MISS CUSHMAN IN MALE ATTIRE", Illustrated American News, Aug 9, 1851
"THE DEAD MAN'S MONEY. A TALE OF NEW YORK. BOOK I. Chapter X.", Illustrated American News, Aug 9, 1851
Logan's Reminiscences Criticized, Brooklyn Union, May 26, 1877
Logan's Reminiscences Criticized, Brooklyn Union, May 26, 1877
"NEW MUSIC", Morning Chronicle, May 11, 1855
Cushman-Logan Controversy, Democrat and Chronicle, Oct 2, 1876
Cushman-Logan Controversy, Democrat and Chronicle, Oct 2, 1876
Logan's Account of a Selfish Cushman, Deseret News, Nov 1, 1876
Logan's Account of a Selfish Cushman, Deseret News, Nov 1, 1876
Charlotte Cushman's Ingratitude, Public Ledger, Oct 6, 1877
Charlotte Cushman's Ingratitude, Public Ledger, Oct 6, 1877
Don Piatt Speaking in Favor of Logan, Daily Memphis Avalanche, June 3, 1877
Don Piatt Speaking in Favor of Logan, Daily Memphis Avalanche, June 3, 1877
Celia Logan about Cushman, Fayettewille Weekly Democrat, Oct 14, 1876
Celia Logan about Cushman, Fayettewille Weekly Democrat, Oct 14, 1876
"Charlotte Cushman: The Story of Her Love as Told by Celia Logan," Lowell Daily Citizen, Aug 14, 1877
Excerpt from De Navarro's "The Girlhood of an Actress," North American Review (1895)
De Navarro's "The Girlhood of an Actress," North American Review (1895)
"Charlotte Cushman. A Hitherto Unpublished Episode in Her Life," San Francisco Examiner, May 25, 1877
"Charlotte Cushman. A Hitherto Unpublished Episode in Her Life," San Francisco Examiner, May 25, 1877
"The American Stage. Theatrical Items," Era, May 9, 1858
"CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN", New York Weekly, Dec 20, 1860
"Literature and Art," Chicago Press and Tribune, Feb 9, 1860
"Literature and Art," Chicago Press and Tribune, Feb 9, 1860
"THE DRAMA IN AMERICA", Era, July 18, 1858
"Charlotte Cushman," San Francisco Evening Bulletin, Dec 1, 1870
Gossip Letter from Atlanta, Atlanta Constitution, June 23, 1875
Gossip Letter from Atlanta, Atlanta Constitution, June 23, 1875
"Charlotte Cushman's Will," Boston Daily Globe, May 2, 1876
"Charlotte Cushman's Will," Chicago Daily Tribune, May 5, 1876
"Charlotte Cushman's Grave," Evening Bulletin, May 19, 1882
"Charlotte Cushman, the Actress." Wood County Reporter, Jan 11, 1883
"THE AMERICAN STAGE", Era, May 9, 1858
Frances Albert Doughty's "Noted Bachelors and Spinsters," Catholic World, Aug 1898
"Old Maids," Woman's Voice and Public School Champion, Jan 25, 1896
"Charlotte Cushman," Chicago Tribune, June 22, 1878
"Charlotte Cushman," Chicago Tribune, June 22, 1878
"MISS CUSHMAN", Glasgow Herald, Jun 4, 1858
