Notes, Chapter 13

Abbreviations

1. "been done before!"--Charles Cushman to Emma [Stebbins], quoting CC, in CCP, 8, 2499.

2. rest of the hour--Cuthbert Bede, "Miss Cushman: A Reminiscence," Belgravia, 29 (May, 1876): 333.

3. blood turn "cold"--CCP, 11, 3467.

4. "Rachel ever achieved"--untitled contemporary newspaper clipping at NN-T.

5. challenge to the world--CCP, 10, 2970.

6. "I have ever met"--CC to Coleman, June, 1845, at MH-T.

7. "at every turn, 'on!'"--CC to Mrs. Jameson, July 5 [1845], at MH-T.

8. "glorious creature"--quoted in A. G. L'Estrange, The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from her Literary Correspondents (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1882), 2, 88.

9. "think of you"--quoted in Frederick G. Kenyon, The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (London: Smith, Elder, 1898), 1, 307.

10. "summer brightness"--Vera Watson, Mary Russell Mitford (London: Evans, n.d.), p. 261.

11. "of great genius"--quoted in Henry Chorley, Letters of Mary Russell Mitford (second series, London: R. Bentley, 1872), 1, 220.

12. "long for them"--CC to Mrs. Howitt, London, n.d., at DFo.

13. "three pounds and a half"--Marston, Our Recent Actors, 2, 68.

14. "you cannot perform"--ibid., pp. 72-73.

15. "a boy of twelve"--quoted in Trewin, Mr. Macready, p. 171.

16. "Only an Actress!"--quoted in The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett 1845-1846 (New York: Hooper, 1898), 1, 154.

17. "name Miss Cushman"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 300.

18. "told won't go"--CC to Mrs. Creswick, August 11, 1845, at CSmH.

19. "perfect inconsistency"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 300-01.

20. "melting mood"--playbill for Theatre Royal, Hull, England, September 3, 1845, in CCP, 15.

21. "away with you"--quoted in Lester Wallack, Memories of Fifty Years (New York: Scribner's, 1889), pp. 76-77.

22. "vain struggling"--quoted in Lawrence and Elizabeth Hanson, Necessary Evil: The Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle (New York: Macmillan, 1952), pp. 260-61.

23. "in love with"--ibid., p. 263.

24. "protection and strength"--CCP, 9, 3463.

25. "exquisitely sad"--CCP, 11, 3442.

26. "don't deserve it"--CCP, 11, 3444.

27. "as she does"--CCP, 11, 3455.

28. "effective performance"--G. Jewsbury to E. Stebbins, February 6, 1877, in CCP, 11, 3468.

29. "for a nose"--Coleman, An Actor's Life, 1, 293.

30. "internal fire"--ibid., p. 294.

31. "comeliness in Charlotte Cushman"--ibid., p. 295.

32. "her debut here"--ibid., pp. 296-97.

33. "strength in them?"--ibid., p. 303.

34. "feminine loveliness"--quoted in Roger Manvell, "Ellen Terry's Lady Macbeth," The Listener, 77 (February 2, 1967): 159.

35. "in them" publicly--Coleman, An Actor's Life, 2, 362-63.

36. "in her skull?"--Frances Ann Kemble, Records of Later Life (New York: Holt, 1882), pp. 459-60.

37. "I have made"--CC to George Combe, November 21, 1845, at ScNE.

38. "thing as Romeo"--CC to Benjamin Webster, March 21 [1846], at MH-T.

39. "like an owl!"--quoted in Coleman, An Actor's Life, 1, 310.

40. "one you are"--quoted in J. H. Stoddart, Recollections of a Player (New York: Barnes, 1903), pp. 34-35.

41. "piece of business"--ibid., p. 19.

42. "have ever seen"--Glasgow Dramatic Review, December 3, 1845, p. 273.

43. "varied and alive"--quoted in ibid., p. 274.