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- Tags: London
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, July 25, 1869
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Sep 17, 1865
Tags: illness/death, London, Rome, social capital, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Sep 21, 1865
Letter from Charlotte Cushman and Sallie Mercer to Emma Crow Cushman, Sep 26, 1865
Tags: illness/death, London, Rome, social capital, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Sep 29, 1865
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Oct 4, 1865
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Aug 1869
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Aug 20, 1869
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Aug 24, 1869
Tags: illness/death, London, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Aug 25, 1865
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Aug 28, 1865
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Rosalie Sully [?], Nov 9, [1845]
Tags: admirers, London, love, women's jobs
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Dec 26, 1862
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to William Wetmore Story, May 31, 1858
Tags: artists abroad, London, Rome, social capital, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Aug 17, 1865
Tags: financial concerns, London, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mary Devlin Booth, 1859[?]
Tags: London, Rome, social capital, travel/touring
Duyckinck's Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America (1872-1874)
Criticism of Cushman's Performance as Romeo, May 29, 1847
Tags: gender norms/bending, London, press coverage
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Ephraim F. Miller, Mar 3, 1854
"Dear Colonel, I sent the letter to Miss Cushman. She seems to be doing wonders at the Haymarket. [...]"
Tags: London
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Apr 7, 1856
"[...] I met Miss Cushman, on Saturday, in the Strand, and she asked me to dinner, but I could not go, being already engaged to meet another actress! I have a strange run of luck as regards actresses, having made friends with the three most prominent…
Tags: London, social capital
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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…