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- Tags: social capital
John G. Nicolay, Lincoln's Secretary
Boston Evening Transcript, Nov 16, 1843
Tags: London, press coverage, rumors, social capital, travel/touring
Letter from Jane Carlyle to Charlotte Cushman, Jan 31, 1862
Tags: love, Rome, same-sex attraction, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, May 6, 1865
Tags: financial concerns, London, love, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, May 11, 1865
Letter from Thomas Colley Grattan to Charlotte Cushman, n.d. [1843]
Tags: press coverage, rumors, social capital
Pennsylvania Inquirer and National Gazette, Sept 08, 1843
Tags: press coverage, social capital
Pennsylvania Inquirer and National Gazette, Sept 30, 1843
Tags: press coverage, social capital
Pennsylvania Inquirer and National Gazette, False Reports, Nov 1, 1843
Tags: press coverage, rumors, social capital, travel/touring
The New York Herald, Macready and Cushman, Oct 26, 1843
Tags: press coverage, social capital
Edmund Burke Fisher
Byrne's Gossip of the Century: Personal and Traditional Memories (1892)
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to William D. Ticknor, Jan 6, 1854
"[…] Tell Colonel Miller that his friend Miss Cushman dined and spent the night with me (that is, in my house,) and that my wife and myself enjoyed her society very much. She spoke with great interest of him; and we both wished that he could have…
Tags: social capital
Wemyss's Twenty-Six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager (1847)
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
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to William D. Ticknor, Aug 15, 1856
"[...] Tell Colonel Miller that we had a call, at Blackheath, from his friends Miss Cushman and Miss Hayes, and that they spoke of him in the most friendly way [...]"
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Mowatt's Autobiography of an Actress; or, Eight Years on the Stage (1854)
Leman's Memories of an Old Actor (1886)
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to James Thomas Fields, Dec 31, 1864
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Thomas Fields, Aug 27, 1864
Tags: social capital, travel/touring
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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…