Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda Hays | 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. Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press. 175 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda 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... |
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:... |
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... |
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 |
Literary Setting | Matilda Hays | The setting and dates of the novel draw substantially on the relationship between Hays and Cushman
. As Lisa Merrill
notes, the very streets on which they lived in Rome . . . are described... |
Travel | Matilda Hays | MH
first accompanied Charlotte Cushman
on her American stage tour, on which she visited Cincinnati and Boston, among other places. Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press. 162, 166, 169 |
Friends, Associates | Emily Faithfull | EF
's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes
, Joaquin Miller
, James Russell Lowell
, and Walt Whitman
. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 183 |
Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Cook | From 1845-1849 she had a romantic friendship with American actress Charlotte Cushman
, for whom she unself-consciously displayed a passionate attachment. Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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. |
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:... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | Wintering again in Rome, FPC
was introduced by Charlotte Cushman
to her future life-friendMary Lloyd
, a Welsh sculptor. Many reputable sources state that she encountered Lloyd in her first visit to Rome... |
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