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"Our Woman's Department," New York Freeman, Jan 9, 1886
This is an exemple of of Gertrude Mossell's "Our Woman's Department," written for New York Freeman, one of the earliest advice columns specifically dedicated to Black women. Above each version, Mossell informs her readers that this column "will be…
Macready's Diary – Cushman mentions (edited by Toynbee, 1912)
The diary entries depict an interesting dynamic between Macready's and Cushman's relationship. There is no diary entry from the beginning of January, 1844, when Cushman published her poem about Macready in the Anglo American Journal. Usually,…
"London in Midsummer," Kansas City Star, Aug 22, 1888
Greenwood sketches how actress Lillie Langtry made it "from idle to laborious display" in a witty comment on social gossip.
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"The World's Newspapers," The Daily Picayune, Nov 25, 1894.
Greenwood, speaking from her travel experience and stays abroad, evaluates the French, Italian, and English press in comparison to the US-American. In the context of a changing press culture, she also indulges in a long speech against…
"The Education of Our Girls," Vermont Chronicle, Aug 8, 1868
Grace Greenwood takes Harriet Hosmer as a prime example of an unconventional education that has made her a strong a celebrated woman. Greenwood bases her account on her own experience and acquaintance with Hosmer in Rome in the 1850s. She counters…
"Products of New England," Lowell Daily Citizen and News, March 30, 1871
Among others, the article celebrates Charlotte Cushman, Harriet Hosmer, and Edmonia Lewis as "educated girls, the truest wives, the noblest mothers, and the most glorious old maids in the world."
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19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Letter from Julia Howe to Anne Brewster, Jan 29, 1871
Julia Ward Howe asks Anne Brewster for help regarding her planned "general congress of women [...] to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace".
Harriet Hosmer's "The Doleful Ditty of the Roman Caffe Greco"
Hosmer writes a "witty" poem, as Cornelia Carr describes it in her edition of Hosmer's letters, about the patriarchal culture of male sculptors in Rome. The poem is published in the New York Evening Post in the summer of 1864.
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"Masculine Women," Liberator, Jan 15, 1858
Mrs. Frances D. Gage criticizes an article in the Home Journal about the masculinity of women in jobs associated with men. She publishes her article in the Missouri Democrat, the article given here is a reprint, and takes Harriet Hosmer as her prime…
Letter from Annie Adams Fields, Boston, to Anne Whitney, Dec 25, 1875
Annie Fields writes to Anne Whitney, a friend of Emma Stebbins and fellow sculptor, about a visit to an exhibit with Emma Stebbins and about Charlotte Cushman's illness
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Wellesley College Archives, Personal Papers
Emma Crow Cushman's Memoir about Charlotte Cushman: "A Memory" (1918)
Emma Crow Cushman emphasizes that she knew Charlotte Cushman "intimately." Emma and Charlotte met in 1858 when Charlotte brought two letters of introduction (by Hosmer and Kemble) to her father in St. Louis. Emma describes her as a "great artist and…
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mrs Creswick, Feb 7, 1841
This is the second letter included in the correspondence between Harold Moulton and Jennie Lorenz. In this letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mrs Creswick in Boston, Cushman voices her concern about various theatres which are struggling financially.…
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Jane Welsh Carlyle, Jan 28, 1862
Charlotte Cushman is worried about Jane Carlyle's illness. She also mentions her own and Stebbins's illness as well as political unrest and democratic endeavors in Europe.
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National Library of Scotland
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mr. Danop, Oct 16, 1863
Cushman verifies Oct 27 as the date for her charity performance. She has prepared the roles of Lady Macbeth and Meg Merrilees.
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New York Public Library
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Henry C. Willard, Nov 22, 1871
Willard has asked Cushman to do a reading of Shakespeare's Henry VIII in Brattleboro in January. She demands $500 for five nights in advance.
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New York Public Library
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Henry C. Willard, Dec 8, 1871
Cushman has arranged to come to Brattleboro on Dec 22. She asks Willard for advice on which railway to take from New Haven to Brattleboro and back.
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New York Public Library
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Henry C. Willard, Dec 2, 1871
Cushman is uncertain whether she will be able to come to Brattleboro on Dec 21 or 22, as her engagement at the theatre is taking up all her time.
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New York Public Library
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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…