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Letter from Elizabeth Barret Browning to Isa Blagden, Dec 12, [1858]

Browning tells Blagden about her first impressions of Rome. She mentions Cushman, Harriet Hosmer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others. Credit The Brownings Correspondence

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Letter from Elizabeth Barret and Robert Browning to Sarianna Browning, Nov 26, [1858]

Elizabeth Barret and Robert Browning share the letter space to inform Robert Browning's sister about their journey to Rome. Robert mentions the high prices for accomodation and how they received a reduction in price since the landlady knows them.…

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Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, [Oct 20, 1856]

Elizabeth Browning informs Blagden that Robert and she are going to travel to Florence. She also mentions Cushman and Matilda Hays who are traveling to Algiers. Credit The Brownings Correspondence

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Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Jessie Meriton White, [April 28[?], 1856]

Browning advises Jessie Meriton to ask Cushman for help in terms of a translation of George Sand who has a "reputation [...] of being tenacious" about her translations. Browning admits that she cannot interfere on Meriton's behalf since she does not…

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Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henry Fothergill Chorley, Aug 10, 1853

Browning courts Chorley, trying to convince him that the Brownings are fond of him. Apparently, Robert Browing misbehaved in the past which offended Chorley. She tells Chorley how Charlotte Cushman praised his play. Browning speaks of Cushman's…

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Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, March 3, [1853]

Browning characterizes Grace Greenwood as a "strong-minded" and a woman who cannot be trusted with confidential information since she would capitalize on it: "What makes me talk so illnaturedly is the information I have since received, that she has…

Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russel Mitford, May 20, [1853]

After meeting Greenwood, Elizabeth Browning admits that she likes the writer despite the defamatory rumors. Credit The Brownings Correspondence

Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, June 1, [1853]

Elizabeth Browning emphasizes again that Grace Greenwood is a person of "general intelligence & sensibility," countering the rumors spread about the writer.Blagden lives with Charlotte Cushman in Via Gregoriana, Rome, for the time being.…

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Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, June 11, [1853]

Again, Browning defends Greenwood and characterizes her as an "unassuming & cultivated, a pleasing woman whose prettiness is an open question." A large part of the letter is devoted to spiritualism, a medium, and talking to the death--stories…

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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

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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

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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…

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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,…

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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

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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

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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

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Letter from Robert Browning to William Wetmore Story, [March 29, 1854]

Robert Browning mentions that Grace Greenwood "has printed" the Brownings "flamingly in her book." Credit The Brownings Correspondence

Byrne's Gossip of the Century: Personal and Traditional Memories (1892)

A retrospective account of Cushman as actress and of her private life: The Memories serve as a good example for how the public image changes after Cushman's death and her success as an actress is being forgotten step by step.Gossip of the Century…

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Letter from Jane Carlyle to Charlotte Cushman, Jan 31, 1862

Jane Carlyle, who had earlier expressed jealousy over Geraldine Jewsbury's attachment to Charlotte Cushman (see, e.g. a 1846-letter to her aunt Jeannie Welsh), here details her deep and sudden affection for Cushman upon finally meeting…

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Letter from Jane Carlyle to Charlotte Cushman, [Sept. 1861]

This letter is one of the first ones that Jane Carlyle sends to Charlotte Cushman.Carlyle writes about Spiritual Magnetism and a note from Cushman. Eventually, she tells Cushman about "strange" men among whom is her husband.

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