Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan.
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Charlotte Cushman
Standard Name: Cushman, Charlotte
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | In later years she became friendly with hymn-writer Elizabeth Rundle Charles
. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Geraldine Jewsbury | 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
... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Matilda Hays | Cushman
and MH
rehearsed together at the Duke of Devonshire
's estate in Yorkshire in preparation for MH
's debut. Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press. 160 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Performance of text | Mary Russell Mitford | In the USA the heroine, Claudia, was played by Charlotte Cushman
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
| Author summary | Matilda Hays | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
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