https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/b6adb69691134b42adaf9e10a3dc1aff.jpg 2b1c45a420985df20f4143ea917e9d3d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Photographic Print of Helen Hunt Jackson Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Helen Hunt Fiske Jackson, 1888, bust, facing right. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <<a href="http://www.loc.gov/item/2006679031/">www.loc.gov/item/2006679031/</a>>. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1888 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cushmania Subject The topic of the resource Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882 Gossip--Published Gossip--Private Relationships--Networks Italy--Rome Description An account of the resource A collection of archival material (letters, diaries, articles, auto/biographical accounts) collected from different archives (cf. <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/sources/archives/">list</a>) that showcase the life of Charlotte Cushman, one of the most successful US American actresses of the nineteenth century. We invite you to either look for specific items via the tag cloud at the bottom of the page or the search function at the top, <a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/items/browse?collection=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">browse all items</a> in this collection, or explore thematic compilations of selected items in our "<a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/exhibits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Exhibits</a>." <h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG"><img title="Item Locations" alt="Item Locations" src="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="349.5" height="237.5" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, Dec 2021: location of items in collection, size nodes)</h6> <h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/44bccce1e23bf9efe34d0078d3cc97f0.JPG"><img title="Item Locations" alt="Item Locations" src="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/44bccce1e23bf9efe34d0078d3cc97f0.JPG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="349.5" height="324.5" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, Dec 2021: letter correspondence for items that have values defined for "location sender" AND "location recipient," size nodes)</h6> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress New York Public Library Philadelphia Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1816-00-00/1920-00 Person An individual. Birth Date 1830 Death Date 1885 Occupation journalist writer poet Admin Comment Comments for further research, pending questions, tasks that still have to be completed Her letters mention both Stebbins and Crow when CC is in the US. Birthplace Amherst, Massachusetts Sex Female Nationality US-American Secondary Texts: Comments Secondary sources that have explicitly commented on the respective item or raised important concerns/questions that are of interest Helen Hunt Jackson's biographer Kate Phillips characterizes Cushman's and Hunt's relationship as a 'romantic friendship' according to Faderman: "In the winter of 1868-69, Jackson did not return to Newport but instead went to Europe, where she traveled for more than a year. […] She wrote more specifically, and less hopefully, about her relationship with Higginson in her correspondence with Charlotte Cushman, a woman then living in Europe who became her close friend sometime during this same trip. When the two women met, Charlotte Cushman was America's most famous living actress. At a time when English men were earning the widest reputations in acting, Cushman had risen from a poverty-stricken Boston childhood to become a cosmopolitan, international superstar; as early as 1852, when she was only thirty-six, she had amassed a fortune large enough to support herself, her mother, and her siblings in perpetuity, and had gone into semiretirement. […] Cushman firmly believed that women artists must maintain control over their own destinies. She took it on herself to serve as Jackson's professional advisor, expressing strong opposition to the younger woman's feelings for Higginson and to what  she considered Jackson's excessive literary dependency." (103) Cushman was seen as influential and in close contact w/ James Fields and Charlotte encouraged Hunt to show independence as a working woman: "When, after her return form Europe, Jackson asked both Higginson and Cushman to help her reconcile some difficulties she was having with James T. Fields over the publication of her Verses (1870), Cushman urged her to handle the matter herself." (Phillips 105) Hunt's (open) secret identity as Saxe Holm: "'Sax' as an abbreviation for 'Saxon,' a person of English descent, and 'holm' as an English word meaning an island in a river. Jackson's reasons for selecting this particular pseudonym are not known, but her reasons for wishing to publish her short fiction under a separate, unrecognizable name are fairly clear. Initially, she was eager to distance herself from the autobiographical material in her stories; later, a variety of circumstances, including her own growing doubts over the quality of her stories, led her to continue trying to mask her authorship. So determined was she in her effort that she even refused to admit her identity as Saxe Holm to many publishers and friends, including Sarah Woolsey. Her first three tales, all about forbidden love and all partly autobiographical, were written when she was still living in the same boardinghouse as Thomas Wentworth Higginson and his wife. […] she confessed her secret to Charlotte Cushman" (Phillips 194) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Helen Hunt Jackson Type The nature or genre of the resource Reference Person Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0046 Description An account of the resource Hunt addresses <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/1" title="Chalrotte Cushman">Charlotte Cushman</a> as "Regina" or her "Queen" in the letters she writes between 1869 and Cushman's death. Cushman repeatedly tells Hunt that she loves her and admires her for her literary work. Hunt is known as "HH" to the public and starts publishing her works with Fields & Osgood. Cushman writes Helen confidential letters about the breach of trust between Charlotte and <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/6" title="Emma Crow Cushman">Emma Crow Cushman</a> and the sudden hostility of <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/87" title="Grace Greenwood">Grace Greenwood</a> towards Cushman as well as Hunt. Due to Hunt's relationship with Higginson, Cushman and Hunt's relationship suffers at times since Cushman opposes Hunt's dependency on Higginson. However, Col. Higginson also helps Cushman find a house in Newport in 1870. When Hunt meets her later husband Jackson, Cushman and Hunt get along better again. Hunt writes for the Atlantic Monthly and Scribner's Monthly among others. After Cushman's death, <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/157" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Stebbins to Lanier, 1876-03-01">Emma Stebbins writes to Sidney Lanier (March 1, 1876)</a> that Hunt has written her and offered to write Charlotte Cushman's biography. Stebbins rejects the offer, partially because Cushman had hoped for Lanier as the author of her memoirs, and partially also because "there is something which is not the ring of the true metal" about Hunt. Subject The topic of the resource Atlantic Monthly Journalists/Writers Relationships--Networks