Author: Ford's Grand Opera House (Baltimore, Md.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Benefit performances
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Miss Charlotte Cushman's Farewell to the Stage
Author: Ford's Grand Opera House (Baltimore, Md.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Benefit performances
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Niblo's Garden Last Night of Miss Charlotte Cushman's Farewell Engagement,
Author: Niblo's Garden TheatrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entertainment events
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
A Life of Charlotte Cushman
Author: William Thompson PricePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Charlotte Cushman
Author: Emma StebbinsPublisher: Boston, Houghton, Osgood
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Charlotte Cushman
Author: Clara Erskine Clement WatersPublisher: Beaufort Books
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Charlotte Cushman
Author: Emma StebbinsPublisher: Boston, Houghton, Osgood
ISBN:
Category : Actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Booth's Theatre ... Arcadian Night. Last Night of the Farewell Engagement of the Illustrious Tragedienne, Miss Charlotte Cushman and Her Final Appearance on the Metropolitan Stage
Author: Booth's TheatrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Reminiscences of the Life of the World-renowned Charlotte Cushman
Author: Walker (Mrs. Dr.)Publisher: Boston : W.P. Tenny
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Reminiscences of the Life of the World-renowned Charlotte Cushman
Author: WalkerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385514134
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Lady Romeo
Author: Tana WojczukPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501199536
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Finalist for the Marfield Prize 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. All her life, Charlotte Cushman refused to submit to others’ expectations. Raised in Boston at the time of the transcendentalists, a series of disasters cleared the way for her life on the stage—a path she eagerly took, rejecting marriage and creating a life of adventure, playing the role of the hero in and out of the theater as she traveled to New Orleans and New York City, and eventually to London and back to build a successful career. Her Hamlet, Romeo, Lady Macbeth, and Nancy Sykes from Oliver Twist became canon, impressing Louisa May Alcott, who later based a character on her in Jo’s Boys, and Walt Whitman, who raved about “the towering grandeur of her genius” in his columns for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. She acted alongside Edwin and John Wilkes Booth—supposedly giving the latter a scar on his neck that was later used to identify him as President Lincoln’s assassin—and visited frequently with the Great Emancipator himself, who was a devoted Shakespeare fan and admirer of Cushman’s work. Her wife immortalized her in the angel at the top of Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain; worldwide, she was “a lady universally acknowledged as the greatest living tragic actress.” Behind the scenes, she was equally radical, making an independent income, supporting her family, creating one of the first bohemian artists’ colonies abroad, and living publicly as a queer woman. And yet, her name has since faded into the shadows. Now, her story comes to brilliant life with Tana Wojczuk’s Lady Romeo, an exhilarating and enlightening biography of the 19th-century trailblazer. With new research and rarely seen letters and documents, Wojczuk reconstructs the formative years of Cushman’s life, set against the excitement and drama of 1800s New York City and featuring a cast of luminaries and revolutionaries who changed the cultural landscape of America forever. The story of an astonishing and uniquely American life, Lady Romeo reveals one of the most remarkable forgotten figures in our history and restores her to center stage, where she belongs.