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For fans of Book of Ages and American Eve, this “lively, illuminating new biography” (The Boston Globe) of 19th-century queer actress Charlotte Cushman portrays a “brisk, beautifully crafted life” (Stacy Schiff, bestselling author of The Witches and Cleopatra) that riveted New York City and made headlines across America.
Oct 3, 2019 · Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876) was the greatest American actress of her era, a theatrical superstar and a gender-nonconforming lesbian who worked on stages in the U.S., Britain and Rome throughout the mid-19th century. For over four decades, she was seen by millions. Tall, strikingly handsome and highly charismatic, Cushman charmed women across two continents from the […]
Oct 11, 2019 · Lisa Merrill, author of When Romeo Was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and Her Circle of Female Spectators (University of Michigan Press, 344pp, 2000), the definitive biography of Cushman, said in an interview with Tim Miller, “Cushman left literally thousands of unpublished letters, mostly written to and from the women she loved. Yet the ...
Apr 24, 2024 · World War I. Vera Charlotte Scott Cushman (born Sept. 19, 1876, Ottawa, Ill., U.S.—died Feb. 1, 1946, Savannah, Ga.) was an American social worker, an active and influential figure in the early 20th-century growth and war work of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). Vera Scott was the daughter of a Scots Irish immigrant merchant ...
Charlotte Cushman, one of the great actors of 19th century American theatre, was a lesbian who kept her identity hidden by focusing her career on male characters (Romeo, Claude Melnotte, Wolsey), and also on strong and passionate women (Lady Macbeth, Bianca in Fazio, and Queen Katherine in Henry VIII). This biography is an authoritative record ...
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May 29, 2019 · The group’s de facto leader was an actress, Charlotte Cushman. They became a couple. Image. Stebbins, right, with her partner, Charlotte Cushman, in about 1860. Cushman pushed Stebbins to take ...
