Charlotte Cushman

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.

Four months after leaving Charlotte Cushman and departing for Italy, MH returned to England seeking a reconciliation with her former partner.

MH and Charlotte Cushman returned once more to Italy, where this year their relationship finally ended.

MH left Rome, threatening to sue Charlotte Cushman and initiating what has been seen as one of the earliest palimony suits.

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...

In 1853, MH 's relationship with Cushman began to deteriorate. Several sources speculate that Hays's attraction to sculptor Harriet Hosmer sparked some of the difficulties. Though Hays and Cushman returned to London together, Hays...

Cushman welcomed MH back upon her return, admitting that now, we shall be together again, never again perhaps to be what she once was to me—still, perhaps, better for us both that I am not...

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:...

In later years MCH continued to maintain relations with several significant literary figures. She was once visited by Frances Trollope , whom she described as A genial, natural woman, not especially refined, but far too...

However, the intense jealousy that had early affected the friendship persisted. Around 1846 GJ began her friendship with the American actress Charlotte Cushman , who was then visiting Manchester. Much to the frustration of...

GJ 's relationship with the actress Charlotte Cushman may have influenced her decision to make the heroine of this work an actress. She wanted to dedicate this novel to Jane Carlyle and Elizabeth Paulet ...