Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press.
162, 166, 169
Charlotte Cushman
Standard Name: Cushman, Charlotte
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Travel | Matilda Hays | MH
first accompanied Charlotte Cushman
on her American stage tour, on which she visited Cincinnati and Boston, among other places. |
| Travel | Matilda Hays | MH
, along with her partner Charlotte Cushman
, sculptor Harriet Hosmer
, journalist Grace Greenwood
and several other women, travelled to Rome to live like jolly female bachelors. Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press. 169, 171 |
| Travel | Matilda Hays | Four months after leaving Charlotte Cushman
and departing for Italy, MH
returned to England seeking a reconciliation with her former partner. Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press. 180 |
| Travel | Matilda Hays | MH
and Charlotte Cushman
returned once more to Italy, where this year their relationship finally ended. Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press. 181-2 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Matilda Hays | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Matilda Hays | Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson
, Longfellow
(used... |
| Textual Production | Matilda Hays | In 1847, while still in her twenties, MH
was led by her desire to improve the lot of women to found a periodical. In the words of her later application for a Civil List
pension:... |
| Textual Features | Eliza Cook | Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for... |
| Publishing | Eliza Cook | Collections of her work were frequently re-issued both in England and the USA. In 1848 a new edition in three volumes was published with a dedicatory poem to Charlotte Cushman
, which reads in part:... |
| Author summary | Matilda Hays | Matilda Hays
was a novelist, translator of George Sand
, editor, and contributor to periodicals. Her work spanned many genres and a variety of topics related to women's work and opportunities. One of her two... |
| Performance of text | Mary Russell Mitford | In the USA the heroine, Claudia, was played by Charlotte Cushman
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
| Occupation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | She played male parts in plays by Shakespeare
and others, not as burlesque, but as straight parts after the style of Charlotte Cushman
. At least one reviewer, in Coventry's Era, objected to... |
| Occupation | Matilda Hays | Cushman
and MH
rehearsed together at the Duke of Devonshire
's estate in Yorkshire in preparation for MH
's debut. Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press. 160 |
| Occupation | Eliza Cook | For five years from May 1849, EC
's time was very much taken up with producing her popular weekly Eliza Cook's Journal, initially with the involvement in this project of her friend the actress Charlotte Cushman
. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. |
| Occupation | Matilda Hays | At Bath, MH
had her debut as an actress playing Juliet opposite Charlotte Cushman
. Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press. 160 |
Timeline
1845: American Charlotte Cushman made a sensation...
Building item
1845
American Charlotte Cushman
made a sensation at her debut on the English stage as Bianca in Henry Hart Milman
's Fazio at the Princess's Theatre .
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