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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…
Tags: gender norms/bending
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 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 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…
Tags: gossip--unpublished, illness/death, Rome
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.…
Tags: gossip--unpublished, Rome, rumors
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, 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 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…
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…
Tags: public intimacy, social capital
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
Tags: public intimacy, travel/touring
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.…
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
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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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)
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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…