Notes, Chapter 1

Abbreviations

1. "cannot fail them"--Robert Cushman, The Sin and Danger of Self Love Described in a Sermon Preached at Plymouth, In New England 1621 (Plymouth, Massachusetts: Nathaniel Coverly, 1785), p. iv.

2. figure in Boston--Harold and James Kirker, Bulfinch's Boston: 1787-1817 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964), p. 220.

3. the entire city--ibid., p. 215.

4. "born a tomboy"--quoted in Emma C. Stebbins, Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and Memories of Her Life (Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1878), p. 13; hereafter cited as Stebbins.

5. "anything with tools"--Stebbins, p. 13.

6. to her father--Stebbins, p. 8.

7. dying of cancer--CCP, 4, 1158.

8. "my mother's children"--CCP, 2, 457.

9. "for a young lady!"--Stebbins, p. 14.

10. expressing her grief--Stebbins, p. 14.

11. throughout its interior--Richard Moody, Edwin Forrest: First Star of the American Stage (New York: Knopf, 1960), p. 72.

12. his Brooklyn Eagle--Howard Taubman, The Making of the American Theatre (New York: Coward-McCann, 1965), p. 83.

13. Kean on stage--Glenn Hughes, A History of the American Theatre 1700-1950 (New York: Samuel French, 1951), p. 155.

14. and good alike--Mary A. Livermore, The Story of My Life: Or the Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years (Hartford, Connecticut: Worthington, 1898), p. 85.

15. Street during 1828--James Henry Wiggin, "A House and a Name," The Bostonian, 1 (October, 1894): 87.

16. on October 30--Alan S. Downer, The Eminent Tragedian: William Charles Macready (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966), p. 110.

17. transitions of his eyes--London Globe, quoted in J. C. Trewin, Mr. Macready: A Nineteenth-Century Tragedian and His Theatre (London: Harrap, 1955), p. 43.

18. from his eyes--Walt Whitman, "Dramatics and the True Secret of Acting," Brooklyn Eagle, August 20, 1846.

19. reaches of passion--James E. Murdoch, The Stage: Or Recollections of Actors and Acting from an Experience of Fifty Years: A Series of Dramatic Sketches (Philadelphia: Stoddart, 1880), p. 97.

20. her ruling passion--Stebbins, p. 16.

21. "to the theatre"--James Parton, The World's Famous Women: A Series of Sketches of Women Who Have Won Distinction by Their Genius and Achievements as Authors, Artists, Actors, Rulers, or within the Precinct of the Home (New York: Alden, n.d.), p. 19.

22. attracting attention--Stebbins, p. 15.