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- Tags: love
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Jane Welsh Carlyle, July 15, 1862
Tags: love, same-sex attraction, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Jane Welsh Carlyle, Nov 16, 1861
Tags: love, Rome, same-sex attraction, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, n.d.
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Dec 26, 1862
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Dec 12-13, 1862
Tags: artists abroad, love, respectability, Rome, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Dec 5-6, 1862
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, Sep 17, 1861
Tags: admirers, love, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, June 12, 1860
Tags: love, same-sex attraction
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, May 23, 1860
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, May 8, 1860
Tags: love, Rome, same-sex attraction, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, May 3, 1860
Tags: love, public intimacy, Rome, same-sex attraction, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, July 27, 1860
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, July 15, 1860
Eliza Cook's Journal, Poem Addressed to Cushman, January 26, 1850
Tags: love, press coverage, same-sex attraction
Letter from Mary Devlin Booth to Emma Crow Cushman, Nov 10[?], 1862
Emma Crow Cushman's Memoir about Charlotte Cushman: "A Memory" (1918)
Emma Stebbins Obituaries
Tags: love, press coverage, public intimacy, social capital
Letter from Jane Welsh Carlyle to Jeannie Welsh, Jan 19, 1846
Tags: love, same-sex attraction
Letter from Emma Stebbins to Helen Hunt Jackson, Sep 7, 1869
Tags: love, 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…