Charlotte Cushman

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 .

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...

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...