Notes, Chapter 12

Abbreviations

1. "J. M. Maddox"--CCP, 12, 3564.

2. "most brilliant one"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 53.

3. "her superior"--Stebbins, p. 51.

4. "acquisition to our stage"--quoted in Spirit, March 22, 1845.

5. "gift is Miss Cushman's"--quoted in Clement, Charlotte Cushman, p. 37.

6. "had amongst us"--quoted in Spirit, March 22, 1845.

7. "inelegancies"--quoted in Yeater, "Charlotte Cushman," p. 55.

8. "rude and violent"--ibid.

9. "tragedienne of her time"--Odell, Shakespeare: From Betterton to Irving (New York: Benjamin Blom, 1963), 2, 251.

10. "make it complete"--CCP, 1, 20.

11. snakelike hiss--Moody, Edwin Forrest, p. 216.

12. "of the public"--Age and Argus, quoted in Spirit, March 22, 1845.

13. interest in her--Marston, Our Recent Actors, 2, 74.

14. "go to Hell!"--Maud Morgan, Strings of Memory: The Autobiography of Maud Morgan (n.p., 1938), p. 9.

15. "of the evening"--February 22, 1845, p. 125, quoted in Lorenz, Charlotte Cushman, p. 344.

16. under the applause--London Literary Gazette, March 1, 1845, p. 141, quoted in Yeater, "Charlotte Cushman," p. 53.

17. "would sound badly"--CCP, 1, 20.

18. "not meet them"--CCP, 1, 21.

19. was "a butcher"--quoted in Phelps, Players of a Century, p. 203.

20. "him with me"--CCP, 1, 20.

21. "you think I do"--CCP, 1, 21.

22. "then and there"--a London paper quoted in Stebbins, p. 54.

23. Beatrice, and Portia--Price, Life of Charlotte Cushman, pp. 62-63.

24. "weeping in an audience"--quoted in Spirit, April 5, 1845, p. 66.

25. "admirable a manner"--April 18, 1845, quoted in Lorenz, Charlotte Cushman, p. 247.

26. "nobleman over here"--CCP, 1, 28.

27. "sick of it"--CCP, 1, 22.

28. "rush to rehearsal"--CCP, 8, 2499.

29. "they can be"--CCP, 1, 27.

30. "painful to me"--CCP, 1, 21.

31. "the civilized world"--CCP, 1, 28.

32. bright talk around him--The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1834-1872 (Boston: Osgood, 1883), 1, 199.

33. "at my age"--quoted in "Rogers, Samuel," Dictionary of National Biography, p. 141.

34. "like him consumedly"--CC to Mackey, March 14 [1845], at DFo.

35. "Christ had said"--quoted in Alethea Hayter, A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846 (London: Faber and Faber, 1965), p. 38.

36. "Falstaffian mask"--The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961), p. 124.

37. "genius for head"--James Pope-Hennessy, Monckton Milnes: The Years of Promise: 1809-1851 (New York: Farrar, Straus, 1955), p. 114.

38. Lieutenant Disraeli--CCP, 8, 2499.

39. "intensity of feeling"--CCP, 9, 2661.

40. "The Avenging Child"--CCP, 8, 2499.

41. "but they did"--ibid.

42. "a skipper at sea"--The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1899), pp. 38-39.

43. a glass of beer--J. R. D., in The New York Times, September 30, 1851, p. 1.

44. "kneel" at her feet--"H. W.," quoted in Stebbins, p. 17.

45. "which explained all"--CCP, 14, 3970.

46. Infatuation had failed--Illustrated London News, May 3, 1845.

47. "will bring me up"--CCP, 1, 28.

48. "hold you long"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 50.

49. "of our lives"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 50.