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- Tags: gossip
Greenwood about Women Journalists, The Daily Picayune, Nov 25, 1894.
Letter from Grace Greenwood to Mr. White, April 12, 1850
Tags: gossip, gossip--published, social capital
Letter from Mary Devlin Booth to Emma Crow Cushman, Jan 13[?], 1862
My darling friend[...] I was very much annoyed at receiving a Boston Post' with a comment upon Miss 'Edwina Booth'. I cannot imagine who could have given publicity to such a private matter; they knew little about it--to say 'born in…
Tags: breach of privacy, gossip
Letter from Jane Welsh Carlyle to John Forster, [April 26, 1849]
Tags: gossip
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt Jackson, March 4, 1870
Tags: gossip, Rome, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt Jackson, Jan 10, 1870
Tags: gender norms/bending, gossip, respectability
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt Jackson, Dec 21, 1869
Tags: gender norms/bending, gossip, respectability, Rome
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Jan 22, 1864
Tags: Civil War, gossip, love, press coverage, respectability, Rome, rumor, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Jan 30, 1863 [1864?]
Tags: financial concerns, gossip, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to [Emma Crow], Jan 15, 1863
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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…