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Letter from Matilda Hays to Robert Browning, March 3, 1865
Matilda Hays writes to Robert Browning to convince him of her writing skills and career by including her "memorial." She mentions Charlotte Cushman in the context of her short stage career after which she traveled as a "companion" with Charlotte.Hays…
Letter from Robert Browning to Isa Blagden, Feb 8, 1860
Browning mentions a letter from Cushman in which she asks him whether she is to expect Blagden soon.
Credit
Armstrong Browning Library - The Browning Letters
Tags: social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mrs. Clevland [Clinland?/Clenland?], Oct 2, 1871
Facing a return to the stage, Cushman finds herself very busy again. She hardly participates in social gatherings anymore. However, she is willing to make an exception for a critic from the Tribune.
Credit
Armstrong Browning Library - Victorian…
Letter from Robert Browning to Isa Blagden, Jan 1, 1860
Charlotte Cushman and Harriet Hosmer are living together in Rome.
Credit
Armstrong Browning Library - The Browning Letters
Tags: public intimacy, social capital
Letter from Elizabeth Browning to Robert Browning, [Oct 21, 1852]
Elizabeth Browning tells Robert of her Paris experience, recounting an encounter with Louis Napoleon together with Cushman. Elizabeth Browning also mentions that Cushman "is on her way to Rome with her friend Miss Hayes who translated George Sand,—so…
Tags: public intimacy, Rome, social capital
Letter from Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Jan 31, 1846
Robert Browning tells Elizabeth Barrett about seeing Cushman and her sister on stage, performing Romeo & Juliet: "I went last night, out of pure shame at a broken promise,-to hear Miss Cushman & her sister in "Romeo and Juliet"-the whole play…
Tags: gender norms/bending
Letter from Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, Aug 10, 1845
Robert Browning mentions "Miss Cushman, the new American actress (clever and truthful-looking)" in his letter to Elizabeth Barrett.
Credit
Armstrong Browning Library - The Browning Letters
Tags: admirers
Letter from Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, Feb 4, 1847
The Brownings inform Jameson that "Miss Cushman means to be imperious about Mr Chorley’s tragedy .. the ‘Duchess Eleanor’"
Credit
Armstrong Browning Library - The Browning Letters
Tags: public image (active)
Letter from Robert Browning to Isa Blagden, March 18, 1865
In a patronizing manner, Robert Browning speaks of the letter from March 3, 1865, which he received from Matilda Hays: "Miss Hays wrote to me for my signature to her petition for a literary pension: I thought it about the coolest proposal I remember,…
Tags: gender norms/bending, women's jobs
Letter from Robert Browning to Isa Blagden, Jan 28, 1860
Robert Browning mentions Charlotte Cushman and Harriet Hosmer together, as friends of Isa Blagden.
Credit
Armstrong Browning Library - The Browning Letters
Tags: public intimacy
Letter from Robert Browning to Isa Blagden, Nov 19, [1867]
Robert Browning complains that "neither of them [Charlotte Cushman or Harriet Hosmer] ever signify their presence to me, when they come to London: it don’t much matter."
Credit
Armstrong Browning Library - The Browning Letters
Tags: public intimacy, social capital
Letter from Robert Browning to Isa Blagden, March 19, 1864
Isa Blagden is in Rome and Robert Browning asks her to give his "love to all old friends you see, Miss Cushman, Miss Stebbins,—Hatty & all indeed."
Credit
Armstrong Browning Library - The Browning Letters
Tags: public intimacy
Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, Jan 5-9, 1860
Elizabeth Browning tells Isa Blagden that she "will offend Miss Cushman" if she does not visit the actress in Rome.
Credit
Armstrong Browning Library - The Browning Letters
Tags: Rome, social capital
Letter from Elizabeth Browning to her Sister Arabella Moulton-Barrett, Jan 15-17 1853
Browning writes about Rome: "Rome is very full, I hear– Fanny Kemble is to be there this month, & Miss Cushman is there, & a world of Americans"
Credit
The Brownings Correspondence
Tags: gossip--unpublished, Rome
Letter from Elizabeth Barret Browning to Isa Blagden, Feb 13, 1853
Elizabeth Browning recounts her first encounter with Charlotte Cushman, who was with Matilda Hays, at that time. Browning liked both of them very much: "I particularly liked Miss Cushman—& I liked, too, Miss Hayes who was with her, though…
Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, June 1, [1853]
Elizabeth Browning asks Isa Blagden whether Cushman is coming and speaks kindly of Grace Greenwood: "Grace is really a Grace, & not a Corinna, not assuming, not presumptuous."
Credit
The Brownings Correspondence
Tags: Rome, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mary Emmons, [Feb] 17, 1871
Cushman "get[s] a little panic of horror from" a note of Mary, who is Emma Crow's sister, since she probably has talked to people about Cushman's "present state of mind (&body)," which gives Cushman "excessive pain & mortification." Cushman…
Letter from Elizabeth Barret Browning to Isa Blagden, [April 15, 1859]
Browning tells Blagden of a conversation she overheard "through a half-open door," in which Cushman spoke highly of Isa Blagden. Recently, Cushman is troubled due to her own health issues, the illness of her sister Susan, and a miscommunication…
Tags: press coverage, Rome, social capital
Letter from Elizabeth Barret Browning to Isa Blagden, Jan 7, [1859]
Cushman is expecting Isa Blagden to visit her.
Credit
The Brownings Correspondence
Tags: Rome, social capital
Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Charlotte Cushman, [ca.] Jan 1859
Bronwing invites Cushman over.
Credit
The Brownings Correspondence
Tags: Rome, social capital
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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…