Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell.
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At around the same time, she also became friendly with the American actress Charlotte Cushman
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Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell.
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Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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...
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...