Notes, Chapter 11

Abbreviations

1. "did I leave home"--CC's diary, October 27, 1844.

2. "than I expected"--CC's diary. Dates of entries are not always easy to determine since she seldom confined herself to the small notebook's printed spaces.

3. "Long Wharf, more wet"--CC to her mother, quoted in Stebbins, p. 47.

4. "his fifth rib"--quoted in J. W. T. Ley, The Dickens Circle: A Narrative of the Novelist's Friendships (New York: Dutton, n.d.), p. 162.

5. "nobody sees it"--quoted in Edwin Percy Whipple, Charles Dickens: The Man and His Work (Boston: Houghton Muffin, 1912), pp. 208-09.

6. "soda bottle"--quoted in M. A. DeWolfe Howe, Memories of a Hostess: A Chronicle of Eminent Friendships Drawn Chiefly from the Diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), p. 136.

7. "I have taken her"--CCP, 1, 16.

8. "heaped densely together"--Nathaniel Hawthorne, The English Notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne; Based upon the Original Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library (New York: Russell and Russell, 1962), p. 535.

9. "were so kind"--CC to her mother, Liverpool, December 2, 1844, in CCP, 1, 18.

10. "dove-like softness"--Trewin, Mr. Macready, p. 168.

11. rebuff on Macready--Strang, Players and Plays, 1, 90.

12. "begin with Emilia"--quoted in Reminiscences of the Life of the World-Renowned Charlotte Cushman, Compiled from Various Records, by Mrs. Dr. Walker, her Chosen Medium: Together with Some of her Spirit Experiences, Expressions of Regret, etc. (Boston: Tenny, 1876), p. 27.

13. "obdurate as Shylock"--quoted in Vandenhoff, An Actor's Note-Book, p. 198.

14. "my own terms."--quoted in Stebbins, p. 46.

15. "the Queen's box"--CC's diary, February 6, 1845.

16. "a passionate explosion"--London Times, February 14, 1845, p. 6, quoted in Yeater, "Charlotte Cushman," p. 77.

17. benches in the pit--London Era, August 5, 1905, clipping at MH-T.

18. "a grave voice"--Westland Marston, Our Recent Actors: Being Recollections Critical, and, in Many Cases, Personal, of Late Distinguished Performers of Both Sexes (London: Low, Marston, Searle, Rivington, 1888), 2, 66.

19. "nearly as deep"--London Era, August 5, 1905, at MH-T.

20. "horrible enlightenment"--London Times, February 14, 1845, p. 6.

21. embodiment of despair--ibid.

22. the slate of her guilt--London Times, June 24, 1854, p. 10.

23. "tremblingly sweet refrain"--London Era, August 5, 1905.

24. career was assured--Stebbins, p. 52.

25. "you've got 'em"--quoted in Col. Forney, in untitled contemporary newspaper clipping, at MH-T.

26. "a demented brain"--Coleman, An Actor's Life, 1, 295.