chapter fifteen: Villa Cushman
“Nursing a nostalgia on the sun-warmed rocks”: Henry James, “The Sense of Newport,” Harpers, August 1906.
“my sea and my sunsets”: Quoted in Alexander Nemerov, Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2010).
“It is cruel and wrong”: Helen Hunt Jackson to Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, circa 1884.
“I don’t believe any of our American men”: Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt Jackson, August 18, 1871, Helen Hunt Jackson Papers, Colorado College.
“the gentlemanly little person”: Ibid., December 6, 1869.
“immediate present seized, held, grabbed, clutched”: Ibid., August 18, 1871.
“I won’t give up reading”: Charlotte Cushman obituary, New York Herald, February 1, 1876.
“When I wish to be antediluvian”: James, William Wetmore Story, 277.
“see every fibre of thatch on the roof”: Higginson, Letters and Journals, January 1872.
“magician”: George T. Ferris, March 21, 1874, Appleton’s Journal, reprinted in Waters, Charlotte Cushman, 151.
chapter sixteen: Contrary Winds
“Come auntie”: Charlotte Cushman Obituary, Harper’s Bazaar, August 26, 1876.
“profusely ornamented”: Charlotte Cushman obituary, Chicago Daily Tribune, February 24, 1876.
“We find little difference”: Charlotte Cushman obituary, New York Times, February 19, 1876.
“Thus we see that Charlotte Cushman”: “The Career of Charlotte Cushman,” Harper’s Bazaar, March 18, 1876.
“There was hardly a hearthstone”: Charlotte Cushman obituary, New York Times, February 19, 1876.
“Into a face that every man called ugly”: “The Career of Charlotte Cushman.”
epilogue
“Culture is not a fixed condition”:Levine, Highbrow / Lowbrow.
“neither man-woman nor woman-man”: Likely paraphrased from Beaumont and Fletcher’s play Love’s Cure or the Martial Maid, about a fierce girl who takes her gentle brother’s place as a warrior.
“whether any amount of histrionic art or genius”: “Charlotte Cushman: Some Notes Concerning Her and Her Appearance in Boston Saturday Evening,” New York Times, October 8, 1863.
than anywhere else in the world: From research conducted by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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