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Letter from Ned Cushman to Susan Muspratt, n.d. [before June, 1854]
The letter describes Ned Cushman's experience in the Naval Academy, Annapolis. It also mentions Charlotte, his aunt, who should have arrived in England at the time.
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Library of Congress, Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library…
Annie Fields
Annie Fields spends a considerable amount of time with Stebbins and Charlotte Cushman in Rome in 1860. Annie Fields and her husband are friends with Charlotte Cushman and prove to be of particular interest for the actress in terms of social capital…
James T. Fields
James T. Fields is immensely influential as an editor and publisher in the late nineteenth century. William Ticknor is his business partner and Ticknor & Fields purchase The Atlantic Monthly in 1859. James is an editor from 1861-71 (successor:…
Frances "Fanny" Seward
Fanny Seward is the daughter of William Seward, Secretary of State (Lincoln). Annie Fields describes Charlotte Cushman as a "Seward-ite" type, speaking about 1863 in her diary of 1871. In the fall of 1863, Seward and Cushman developed a more intimate…
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Carlyle is Charlotte Cushman's counterpart in Great Britain. She is in love with Jewsbury who then meets Charlotte Cushman. In 1860, she is with Stebbins and Charlotte in Rome. In 1863, Fields writes that Mrs. Carlyle is very fond of Charlotte…
James Sheridan Muspratt ("Dr.")
Charlotte Cushman's letters to Rosalie in the 1870s expose her not very favorable opinion of the Muspratts. Muspratt is a wealthy Liverpool scientist.
Frances "Fanny" Anne Kemble Butler
She is married to Mr. Butler but gets divorced. Charlotte Cushman supports her in her fight for custody. Kemble is an old friend and theatrical colleague of Charlotte Cushman. Eventually, they part on bad terms, as Fanny is disturbed by Charlotte's…
George Combe
He voiced his "concern" regarding Charlotte Cushman's private life. He is a phrenologist and the husband of Fanny Kemble's cousin and Sarah Siddons's daughter.
Rufus King
He is minister to Rome and is referred to as "ambassador" and "newspaperman" by Charlotte Cushman, who describes some meetings with his wife in her letters.
William Wetmore Story
William Wetmore Story is critical of CC and her circle, Lisa Merrill describes him as Cushman's "adversary" (Merrill, When Romeo Was a Woman, p. 231). He is US consul in Rome before Cushman's nephew Ned Cushman takes over after Lincoln's re-election.…
Helen Hunt Jackson
Hunt addresses Charlotte Cushman 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…
Henry Fothergill Chorley
Chorley is a musical critic who writes for The Athenaeum. He also writes plays, e.g., "Duchess Eleanor" for which he asks for Cushman's support. When Charlotte Cushman performs as Queen Katherine after Rosalie's death, starting in October 1847,…
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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…