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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    famous painter Thomas Sully and had a romantic relationship with Charlotte Cushman. Sully was born on June 3, 1818, to the famous painter Thomas Sully...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    Butler, William Ellery Channing, Rufus Choate, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Charlotte Cushman, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Dorothea Dix, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward...
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  • Othello at Corpus Christi, Texas. December 30 – The American actress Charlotte Cushman plays Romeo to her sister Susan's Juliet in a production of Romeo...
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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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  • 10 – Reverdy Johnson, American politician (b. 1796) February 18 – Charlotte Cushman, American actress (b. 1816) February 24 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts,...
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    Csencsits (1955–1989; aged 33), American athlete and bodybuilder. Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876; aged 59), American stage actress. Virgilia D'Andrea (1888–1933;...
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  • "28" birthday my love"". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 21 June 2021. "Cushman, Charlotte (1816-1876)". GLBTQ. Archived from the original on 18 April 2007....
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