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Transcript of Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Rosalie, April 18 + 25, 1875
Charlotte Cushman wants Rosalie to get a baby girl, discusses her health, Ned's business. Cushman informs Rosalie that she is in Newport at the moment and will go to Baltimore in April for an engagement. Charlotte would like to be with Rosalie or…
Transcript of Letter from Charlotte Cushman to [Sidney Lanier], Oct 21, 1875
Charlotte Cushman begs Lanier to pay her a visit. She is in great pain.
Transcripts by Jennie Lorenz
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Library of Congress, Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Transcript of Letter from Charlotte Cushman to [Sidney Lanier], June 23, 1875
Charlotte Cushman wants to meet Lanier. Her illness is always present. She asked for another operation to improve her help but her doctor from Boston informed her that it was too late for such a treatment. Cushman reads the press reports about…
Transcript of Letter from Charlotte Cushman to [Sidney Lanier], Jan 3, 1875
Charlotte Cushman is thankful for Lanier's affection. Death is hovering above her. Stebbins is devastated due to Cushman's state of health but Dr. Thornton is increasingly optimistic about Cushman's condition.Charlotte mentions press reports about…
Transcript of Letter from Charlotte Cushman to [Sidney Lanier], Feb 3-4, 1876
Charlotte Cushman feels very ill and is very thankful for the friends that keep visiting her. Some of her wounds are not covering up yet but her doctor is satisfied with the healing process. She is unable to walk around. The letter is sent shortly…
Transcript of Letter from Charlotte Cushman to [Sidney Lanier], Aug 3, 1875
Charlotte Cushman writes to Sidney Lanier about a Mr. Calvert who admires his poems. She has been cut of all her “English associations for so long—& they were never of the Press, that it is not clear to me at once.” Charlotte is suffering from…
The Athenaeum, Cushman mention in Gossip Section, Sept 16, 1854
Cushman is announced to perform at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. The paragraph suggests that prices have been increased due to Cushman's renown.
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Hathi Trust
Susan Cushman Muspratt
Charlotte's sister performs as Juliet in Romeo & Juliet.She is forced into marriage with Nelson Merriman when she is 14 and he is in his 60s. He leaves her and the child in debt. With the help of her family, Susan files for divorce. Charlotte…
Strang's Players and Plays of the Last Quarter Century (1902)
Strang deems Stebbins's biography of Charlotte Cushman to be untrue in parts. Strang gives a detailed account of Cushman's performances and describes Macready as a decisive factor in Cushman's career, the major career boost.
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Hathi Trust
Stillman's The Autobiography of a Journalist (1901), Vol. 1
Charlotte Cushman is mentioned on pages 359-365.Cushman and her "clique" (365) included Miss Stebbins, Harriet Hosmer, "and one or two others of lesser fame" (359).He states that she used her fame or even Stillman (critic) to denounce other sculptors…
Stebbins's Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and Memories of Her Life (1878)
Biography of Charlotte Cushman, written after her death by her spouse Emma Stebbins. The transcribed correspondence between Stebbins and Sidney Lanier (who had originally been chosen as the author of the biography) details the painstaking process of…
Stebbins as Intimate Friend, Publishers' Weekly, May 4, 1878
The advertisment of Emma Stebbins's biography of Charlotte Cushman describes Stebbins as an "intimate friend" of the actress with "access" to the latter's life writing documents-
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Publishers' Weekly Digital Archive
Sidney Lanier
Charlotte Cushman frequently writes to Lanier before she dies in February 1876. Initially, Emma Stebbins and Lanier work together on a biography about Cushman before they disagree about the publishing process and some miscommunication leads to their…
Sarah Josepha Hale
Hale is an important business partner and friend of Cushman, as Hale becomes the editor of Godey's in 1837. She is Godey's editor for fourty years, from 1837-1877.
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Charlotte Cushman
Charlotte Cushman becomes widely known on both sides of the Atlantic as the first successful US-American actress. Earlier, she was a singer under the tutelage of James G. Maeder, married to actress Clara Fisher, in Boston. Charlotte has been the sole financial support of her mother since her father…