Notes, Chapter 21

Abbreviations

1. found her "beautiful"--George Eliot to Sara Hennell, quoted in Gordon S. Haight, The George Eliot Letters (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955), 2, 40.

2. "actress ever lived"--CC to Grace Greenwood, July 9, 1852, at NNC.

3. "truth and inspiration"--Madame de Marguerittes, "Mademoiselle Rachel and Miss Cushman," Sharpe's London Journal, 15 (June 1, 1852): 13-14.

4. "she survived it"--Hawthorne, English Notebooks, p. 616.

5. "morn to dewy eve"--Greenwood to unidentified person, inserted in CSmH copy of Parton, Eminent Women, 1 (extra-illustrated edition).

6. "a bit of marble"--quoted in Child, "Harriet Hosmer," p. 4.

7. "bower of curls"--quoted in Samuel Longfellow, The Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With Extracts from his Journals and Correspondence (Boston: Ticknor, 1886), 2, 309.

8. shy and self-conscious--CC to Stebbins, quoted in Stebbins, p. 169.

9. "I must say!"--Elizabeth Barrett Browning to John Kenyon, quoted in Kenyon, Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 2, 89.

10. "always golden"--quoted in Gardner B. Taplin, The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957), p. 266.

11. "a little more, perhaps"--Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabel, October 22, 1852, at NN.

12. "she shall learn!"--quoted in Child, "Harriet Hosmer," p. 4.

13. "world has ever seen"--quoted in Coleman, An Actor's Life, 1, 306.

14. the same offer--Child, "Harriet Hosmer," p. 5.

15. suspect herself--Margaret Farrand Thorp, Female Persuasion: Six Strong-Minded Women (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949), p. 156.

16. "I shall not"--Story to Lowell, February 11, 1853, quoted in Gertrude Reese Hudson, Browning to His American Friends: Letters between the Brownings, the Storys, and James Russell Lowell 1841-1890 (London: Barnes and Noble, 1965), p. 255.

17. "first woman who ever had"--ibid., pp. 272-73.

18. "display my gratitude"--Lowell to Frances G. Shaw, Rome, 1851, quoted in Charles Eliot Norton, Letters of James Russell Lowell (New York: Harper, 1893), 1, 193.

19. the finished picture--original now in the Cushman family collection.

20. "I ever saw"--quoted in Henry James, William Wetmore Story and His Friends: From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections (New York: Grove, 1957), 1, 269.

21. "such modern art, certainly"--quoted in William Clyde de Vane and K. L. Knickerbocker, New Letters of Robert Browning (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950), p. 74.

22. "soul and body together"--Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mrs. Jameson, December 21, 1853, quoted in Kenyon, Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 2, 148.

23. "it so abounds"--quoted in Parton, Eminent Women, p. 160.

24. "place for an artist"--quoted in Margaret Farrand Thorp, The Literary Sculptors (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1965), p. 28.

25. "the capricious sea"--quoted in Parton, Eminent Women, p. 161.

26. "come tonight too?"--Elizabeth Barrett Browning to CC, in CCP, 9.

27. "to please you"--quoted in Spirit, February 26, 1876.

28. "to crush me"--CC to Greenwood, June 15, 1854, at NNC.