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    Charlotte Saunders Cushman (July 23, 1816 – February 18, 1876) was an American stage actress. Her voice was noted for its full contralto register, and...
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  • The Charlotte Cushman Foundation (CCF) is a philanthropic organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, incorporated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...
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    English Woman's Journal. Her love interests included the actress Charlotte Cushman, with whom she had a 10-year relationship, and the poet Adelaide Anne...
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    used a happy ending. Performances in the 19th century, including Charlotte Cushman's, restored the original text and focused on greater realism. John...
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    leading ladies of the expatriates in Rome was Charlotte Cushman, an American actress. Upon meeting Stebbins, Cushman took a special interest in her work and...
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    countless notable actresses over the centuries, including Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Melmoth, Helen Faucit, Ellen Terry, Jeanette Nolan, Vivien Leigh, Isuzu...
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  • American author, notable for her lesbian relationship with actress Charlotte Cushman, whose nephew she was persuaded to marry in order to camouflage their...
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    with some hand-tinting Cute Blond Boy, c. 1860 American actress Charlotte Cushman, 1859 Bare ambrotype plate, c. 1860, showing damage to emulsion and...
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  • inventor Charlie Cushman (1850–1909), American baseball umpire and manager Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), American stage actress Doug Cushman (born 1953),...
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    as Juliet in a production of Romeo and Juliet, alongside actress Charlotte Cushman, who played Romeo. Booth was portrayed by actress Maggie McNamara...
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    and Son, 1840, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Charlotte Cushman, 1843, Folger Shakespeare Library Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire,...
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    into the mob. In total, 31 rioters were killed and over 100 injured. Charlotte Cushman is unique among nineteenth century interpreters of Shakespeare in...
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    donations. That year, the electors selected seven new names (including Charlotte Cushman, the first performer to be elected) as well as two of the foreign-born...
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    nineteenth century American painter who had a romantic relationship with Charlotte Cushman. Rosalie Sully was born on June 3, 1818. She was the daughter of painter...
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    Charles Matthews. Hercules was played en travesti by Charlotte Saunders (possibly Charlotte Cushman Saunders), with a Miss Herbert as Omphale. Hercules...
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    the great names regularly appearing at the Howard were Edwin Booth, Charlotte Cushman and other stellar performers of that era, including a young John Wilkes...
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    size of her cap, it is more likely an irregular headdress.) 1856. Charlotte Cushman wears her hair parted in the center and brushed into puffs over each...
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    Webb Cushman (March 17, 1822 – May 10, 1859) was a Boston, Massachusetts-born American actress, the younger sister of established actress Charlotte Cushman...
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    she appeared as Donalbain in Macbeth in the farewell engagement of Charlotte Cushman. From this point and for the rest of her life, Henderson travelled...
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    was greatly admired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bayard Taylor, Charlotte Cushman, and other leading poets and critics of the day. The "sprung verse"...
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  • (1818–1847), painter, daughter of Thomas, had affair with actress Charlotte Cushman Thomas Sully (1783–1872), portrait painter William Swaim (1781–1846)...
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    performed in New Orleans beginning in minor roles with Edwin Booth and Charlotte Cushman until he was featured in larger parts. He became a well-known actor...
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    1882) July 21 – Paul Reuter, German entrepreneur (d. 1899) July 23 – Charlotte Cushman, American actress (d. 1876) July 31 – George Henry Thomas, American...
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    19th century from the United States to Rome, including the actress Charlotte Cushman, and sculptors Emma Stebbins and Harriet Hosmer. Around 1890, former...
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    Performers at the venue included Fanny Davenport, Joseph Jefferson, and Charlotte Cushman, others. John Wilkes Booth joined the theatre's stock company in 1857...
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  • Melnea Cass, civil rights activist Lucretia Crocker, science educator Charlotte Cushman, actress and art patron Carolyn L. Dewing, founder of the School of...
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    self-supporting professional. Brewster had a very close relationship with Charlotte Cushman but she forced herself to break away regretting it years later. Brewster...
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    the Piazza Barberini. She received professional support from both Charlotte Cushman, a Boston actress and a pivotal figure for expatriate sculptors in...
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    while Bianca is based clearly on another of Jewsbury's close friends, Charlotte Cushman. This was the author's own favourite among her novels. Her third novel...
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    Cook was a close friend and lover of the American actress Charlotte Cushman. Cook and Cushman sometimes wore matching dresses to symbolise their friendship...
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