Notes, Chapter 15

Abbreviations

1. "bursts of passion"--Glasgow Dramatic Review, 50 (May 20, 1846): 398.

2. "beau ideal of a woman"--untitled clipping from Liverpool Journal, at MH-T.

3. "proprieties bite dreadfully"--CCP, 11, 3461.

4. "regal paradises"--Sophia Hawthorne, quoted in Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, Memories of Hawthorne (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1897), p. 235.

5. "my next speech"--quoted in Fred Belton, Random Recollections of an Old Actor (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1880), pp. 204-06.

6. "unescapable woman"--CC to unnamed person, quoted in Stebbins, p. 84.

7. "hair's breadth of it"--quoted in Hayter, A Sultry Month, p. 155.

8. "brimstone of a creature"--Elizabeth Drew, The Literature of Gossip: Nine English Letterwriters (New York: Norton, 1964), p. 197.

9. "Hell"--ibid., p. 211.

10. "Carlyle's wife"--quoted in Hayter, A Sultry Month, p. 155.

11. "it is always true"--Howitt, "The Miss Cushmans," p. 30.

12. "yourself upon it"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 75.

13. "doing their duty"--H. H. [Helen Hunt Jackson], Bits of Travel (Boston: Roberts, 1891), p. 299.

14. "the morning air"--quoted in Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. Walter Dexter (Bloomsbury, England: Nonesuch Press, 1938), 2, 279-80.

15. "I ever tried"--quoted in John Nichol, Thomas Carlyle (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1904), pp. 110-11.

16. "front and ruffles"--Margaret Howitt, Mary Howitt: An Autobiography (Boston: Isbister, 1889), 2, 37.

17. "in any hemisphere"--quoted in The Gathering of the Forces: Editorials, Essays, Literary and Dramatic Reviews and Other Material Written by Walt Whitman as Editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1846 and 1847 (New York: Putnam's, 1920), p. 344.

18. "Theatre Royals"--in Brooklyn Eagle, August 14, 1846.

19. "professionally with me!"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 348.

20. "Shakespeare ever drew"--quoted in Clement, Charlotte Cushman, p. 51.

21. "green room all over"--quoted in Hanson, Necessary Evil, p. 236.

22. "I am not head"--quoted in ibid., p. 106.

23. "have gone mad"--quoted in ibid., p. 156.

24. "the butt-end"--quoted in ibid.

25. "been more explicit"--quoted in Anne Ritchie, Records of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning (New York: Hooper, 1893), p. 157.

26. "to talk with Carlyle"--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Carlyle," in The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (New York: Random House, 1950), p. 925.

27. "her husband is there?"--Margaret Fuller to Emerson, November 16, 1846, in R. W. Emerson, W. H. Channing, and J. F. Clarke, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884), 2, 187.

28. "rose water imbecilities"--Carlyle in his diary, March 13, 1872, in William Allingham, A Diary (London: Macmillan, 1907), p. 208.

29. "life and death"--Emerson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 2, 187.

30. "he gets among them"--Fitzgerald, Letters to Fanny Kemble, p. 9.

31. captured in marble--Adam Badeau, The Vagabond (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1859), p. 44.

32. "effort together"--quoted in Clement, Charlotte Cushman, p. 53.

33. "rescue her from this?"--quoted in Hayter, A Sultry Month, p. 146.

34. "rejoiced"--Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mrs. Martin, August 7, 1847, quoted in Kenyon, Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1, 338.

35. "compete with her"--London Theatrical Times, 1 (September 5, 1846): 98.

36. "'danger' before"--Liverpool Journal, January 2, 1847.

37. "unprofitable affair"--Liverpool Mercury, January 18, 1847.

38. "practicing steadily"--Liverpool Mercury supplement, January 8, 1847.

39. "very great desire"--CCP, 10, 2930.