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                <text>&lt;p&gt;A collection of archival material (letters, diaries, articles, auto/biographical accounts) collected from different archives (cf. &lt;a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/sources/archives/"&gt;list&lt;/a&gt;) that showcase the life of Charlotte Cushman, one of the most successful US American actresses of the nineteenth century.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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            <text>The following remarks—part of a notice published in the &lt;em&gt;Queen&lt;/em&gt; newspaper shortly after the news of his decease reached England—are evidently penned by a friendly, but not partial, hand—. "... and the 'Zenobia'—said to be by Miss Hosmer, but really executed by an Italian workman at Rome. Mr. Gatley visited England during the Exhibition, but returned to Rome a disappointed man. An attempt was made by some of his friends to bring his great merits before the public in such a form as to obtain, at least, an honest verdict; but the influence of the 'Roman &lt;em&gt;clique&lt;/em&gt;' proved too strong ..."*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;________________________&lt;br /&gt;*We have no idea who composed the "Roman &lt;em&gt;clique&lt;/em&gt;" referred to by the writer ...</text>
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            <text>The Roman Clique remark referrs rather to the Gatley works discussed and not so much to the Zenobia, I would say</text>
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            <text>&lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112004525082"&gt;https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112004525082&lt;/a&gt;. Accessed 21 July 2020.</text>
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            <text>Apparently, Joseph Mozier started the rumor (Moody, Linda. “An Intimate Circle of Friends.” &lt;em&gt;Gay Community News&lt;/em&gt;, 13 October 1984, &lt;em&gt;Digital Transgender Archive&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/c821gk11q"&gt;https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/c821gk11q&lt;/a&gt;. Accessed 7 March 2022)</text>
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              <text>The Art Journal republishes a comment from the &lt;em&gt;Queen&lt;/em&gt; newspaper (in an obituary for British sculptor Alfred Gatley) which claims Hosmer's Zenobia statue was "really executed by an Italian workman."&lt;br /&gt;Hosmer responded to this attack on her reputation with an article on "The Process of Sculpture" in &lt;em&gt;The Atlantic Monthly&lt;/em&gt; (Dec, 1864).&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Credit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#13;
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