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- Tags: same-sex attraction
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, July 12, 1862
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 Anne Brewster to Mary Howell, July 8, 1864
Cobbe's Autobiography Life of Frances Power Cobbe (1894)
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
Letter from Jane Welsh Carlyle to Jeannie Welsh, Jan 19, 1846
Tags: love, same-sex attraction
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt Jackson, Dec 6, [1870?]
Tags: illness/death, same-sex attraction
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt Jackson, Dec 6, 1869
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt Jackson, Nov 23, 1869
Tags: love, same-sex attraction
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Grace Greenwood, July 9, 1852
Tags: London, love, Rome, same-sex attraction, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Grace Greenwood, June 15, 1854
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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…