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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 18, 1862
Tags: financial concerns, love, Rome, same-sex attraction
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, July 5, 1861
Tags: illness/death, love, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Sep 17, 1861
Tags: admirers, love, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Sep 15, 1860
Tags: love, respectability
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, June 12, 1860
Tags: love, same-sex attraction
"Poetry. Poetical Dedication of a Volume", Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser, Nov 30, 1848
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, May 23, 1860
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, May 8, 1860
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
Letter from Mary Devlin to Charlotte Cushman, Nov 4, 1858
Darling Miss Cushman,Need I tell you how grateful I am for your thought of me, and how pleased I was at your present, --suffice it is to say that through the politeness of Capt Leitch I received it safely and longed for your presence to kiss, and…
Tags: love, same-sex attraction, social capital
Eliza Cook's Journal, Poem Addressed to Cushman, January 26, 1850
Tags: love, press coverage, same-sex attraction
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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…