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

The two-volume novel is an encoded representation of MH 's failed relationship with Charlotte Cushman . One of the minor characters, Miss Reay, is an idealised version of MH herself: an independent woman editing a...

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...

At Bath, MH had her debut as an actress playing Juliet opposite Charlotte Cushman .

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...

MH first accompanied Charlotte Cushman on her American stage tour, on which she visited Cincinnati and Boston, among other places.