Charlotte Cushman

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...

During her time in Italy she came into contact with a number of other women who revered her as a successful female artist. She met actress Charlotte Cushman and writer Matilda Hays ; she understood...

When Lady Harriet's husband remarried, JWC became a fast friend of his new wife, Louisa Stewart-Mackenzie . At around the same time, she also became friendly with the American actress Charlotte Cushman .

Wintering again in Rome, FPC was introduced by Charlotte Cushman to her future life-friendMary Lloyd , a Welsh sculptor.

From 1845-1849 she had a romantic friendship with American actress Charlotte Cushman , for whom she unself-consciously displayed a passionate attachment. Her first experience of Cushman on stage led her to send the actress an...

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 .

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:...

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...

CC 's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting...

EF 's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joaquin Miller , James Russell Lowell , and Walt Whitman . She also made the acquaintance of many actors and actresses, including Henry Irving

MH published in New YorkFadette, A Domestic Story from the French, her translation of George Sand 's novel, with a dedication to Charlotte Cushman , True Artist and Yet Truer Woman ....

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...

By her twenties, MH was well-acquainted with several prominent figures in England's social, political, and literary scene. Her circle included Mary Howitt , Eliza Meteyard , William Charles Macready , Samuel Laurence , Geraldine Jewsbury

Cushman and MH rehearsed together at the Duke of Devonshire 's estate in Yorkshire in preparation for MH 's debut.

The intense relationship between MH and Cushman is the subject of considerable debate over whether it constituted a lesbian union. After meeting the pair, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote in a letter to a friend, I...