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Index
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Abolitionists, 41, 108, 115, 153
Adventure stories, 14, 60
African-Americans, 66, 120, 150
African Grove Theatre, 66 (New York City), 66
Albany, New York, 51–55, 60, 144
Alcoholism, 47, 55, 143
Alcott, Bronson, 77
Alcott, Louisa May, 7–8, 142
“Allerleirauh” (Brothers Grimm), 74
American Notes (Dickens), 93–94
Amusements (entertainment publication), 83
Anderton, Sarah, 112
Angel of the Waters (Stebbins), 147, 160, 180
Anesthesia, 5–6, 160
Arcadia Club (New York City), 4
Astor Place Opera House (New York City), 120
Astor Place Riots, 120–21
Atlantic Monthly, 171
Austen, Jane, 109
Babbit, Augustus (Charlotte’s uncle), 11, 15, 19, 24
Babbit, Charles, 11
Babbit, Charlotte, 13
Badeau, Adam, 143
Barnum, P. T., 46
Barrett, Arabella, 119
Barton, James, 41
Bathe at Newport, The (Homer), 163, 164
Beethoven, Ludwig von, 173
Bel Air, Maryland, 143
Benjamin, Park, 67–68
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 129
Bethesda Fountain (Central Park), 147, 180
Bible, 13, 28, 155
Bill Sikes (character in Oliver Twist) 75–76
Blackface minstrel shows, 66
Boardinghouses, 17–19, 30, 34, 44, 50
Bohemianism, 126
Boone, Daniel, 14
Booth, Asia, 142
Booth, Edwin, 151, 152, 157, 158, 161
alcoholism of, 55
marriage of, 142–44
theatre owned by, 2–4
Booth, Edwina, 151, 158
Booth, John Wilkes, 55, 142, 157–58
Booth, Junius, 54–55, 95, 142, 143–43
Booth, Junius, Jr., 142, 143, 157
Booth, Mary Devlin, 142–44, 143, 151
Booth’s Theatre (New York City), 2–4
Boston, 10–19, 41, 139, 142, 160
Charlotte’s childhood and adolescence in, 13–19 169
Charlotte’s death in, 169–73
Common in, 12, 18, 170
literary friends in, 124, 126
Long Wharf in, 16, 18, 55, 91, 169
opera in, 28–31
theatres in, 11, 19, 23, 24, 26, 28, 40
Bowery Theatre (New York City), 41, 45–49, 74, 129
Braham, John, 61–62, 64
Breast cancer, 5–6, 147, 159, 167
Breeches parts, 3, 82, 180
Brewster, Annie, 69
British, 9, 10, 13–14, 19, 33, 112
attitudes toward Americans of, 9, 93–94, 120
theatre culture of, 22, 23, 25, 78
Broadway Theatre (New York City), 117
Bromley, Isaac, 171
Brooklyn Eagle, 65, 77, 98, 108, 125
Brooks, Noah, 171
Brothers Grimm, 13, 74
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 115, 118–19
Browning, Robert, 93
Brownson, Orestes, 77
Brutus (character in Julius Caesar), 157
Bryant, William Cullen, 3–4
Bull Run, Battle of, 150
Burned District (New York City), 45–46
Burton, William, 36
Butler, Pierce, 85
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 14
Caldwell, James, 34–36, 38
California, 143
Cancer, 5–6, 147, 159, 167
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 109, 110, 135
Carlyle, Thomas, 110
Cenci, Beatrice, 131–32
Central Park (New York City), 147, 157
Chatham Theatre (New York City), 74–75
Cherokees, 14, 119
Chicago, 121–23
Chicago and Great Eastern Railroad, 121–22
Chippendale, Mrs., 61
Chloroform, 5–6, 160
Cinderella (Rossini), 29
Civil War, 149–54, 159
Clarendon, Miss, 67–68
Cleopatra, 10
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 125
Closel, Madame, 40
Clover Hill (Sully family house), 80, 89, 100
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 104, 115
Coleridge, Sara, 115
Collect Pond (New York City), 71, 72
Colosseum (Rome), 130, 139
Compromise of 1850, 149
Confederate Army, 149–50
Constitution, U.S., 22
Cook, Eliza, 110–12
Cooper, Peter, 2
Cooper Union, 2
Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 19, 26
Countess Almaviva (character in Marriage of Figaro), 31
Covent Garden (London), 95
Croton Aqueduct (New York State, 147, 160
Crow, Cornelia, 144
Crow, Wayman, 141, 144
Cunard Line, 151
Cushman, Augustus (Charlotte’s brother), 14–15, 17, 18, 51–52, 55–56
death of, 57, 59, 65, 67
Cushman, Charles “Charlie” (Charlotte’s brother), 13, 14, 16, 17
in London, 96, 112
sales clerk job of, 51, 67, 84
Cushman (originally Merriman), Charles Edwin “Ned” (Susan’s son) 66–67, 69, 70, 84, 170
adopted by Charlotte, 113
birth of, 66
in London, 112
marriage of, 145–46
in Newport, 160, 161
Cushman, Charlotte:
in Albany, 51–56
Bethesda Fountain as tribute to, 147, 180
birth of, 13
breast cancer of, 5–6, 147, 159, 167
breeches parts of, 3 (see also Hamlet and Romeo below)
childhood and adolescence in, 13–19, 169
death of, 169–73
farewell performance of, 1–7
father’s abandonment of, 13, 21, 28, 57
as Hamlet, 3, 81–83, 121, 125–26
as Lady Macbeth, 3, 8, 36, 38–40, 39, 49, 86, 97, 121, 126, 150, 157, 278
as Meg Merrilies in Guy Mannering, 60–65, 63, 73, 95, 121, 126, 174, 178
as Nancy in Oliver Twist, 69–77, 121, 174, 178
in New Orleans, 33–35, 38–41
return to Manhattan of, 44–46
rheumatic fever bout of, 49–50
in Rome, 6, 118, 126, 129–40, 145–46, 150–51, 159, 165
as Romeo, 3, 5, 7, 58, 60, 97, 100–107, 111–12, 121, 126, 136, 142, 144–45, 174
siblings of, see Cushman, Augustus; Cushman Charles; Cushman, Susan
singing voice of, 29–31, 35
train travel by, 42–44, 77–78, 86, 121–23
understanding of Shakespeare by, 78, 83
walking lady roles of, 59, 65, 66
wife of, see Stebbins, Emma
Cushman, Elkanah (Charlotte’s father), 11, 13–14, 16–17, 21, 57
Cushman, Emma Crow (Ned’s wife), 144–46, 154, 160, 161, 165, 170
Cushman, Mary Eliza Babbit (Charlotte’s
