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CUSHMAN, CHARLOTTE SAUNDERS (1816–1876)

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CUSHMAN, See also:CHARLOTTE SAUNDERS (1816–1876) , See also:American actress, was See also:born in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, on the 23rd of See also:July 1816. Her See also:father, a See also:West See also:India See also:merchant, See also:left his See also:family in straitened circumstances, and Charlotte, who had a See also:fine See also:contralto See also:voice, went on the operatic See also:stage. In 1835 she successfully appeared at the Tremont See also:theatre as the countess Almaviva in The See also:Marriage of See also:Figaro. But her singing voice failing her she entered the See also:drama, and played See also:Lady See also:Macbeth in the same See also:year. She then engaged herself as a stock actress, but was soon given leading parts. In 1842 she managed and played in the See also:Walnut See also:Street theatre in See also:Philadelphia. She accompanied See also:Macready on an American tour, winning a See also:great reputation in tragedy, and in 1845 and in 1854–1855 she fulfilled successful engagements in See also:London. She was a keen student, and acquired a large range of classic roles. Her best parts were perhaps Lady Macbeth and See also:Queen Katherine, her most popular Meg Merrilies, in a dramatization of See also:Scott's See also:Guy Mannering. Her figure was commanding and her See also:face expressive, and she was animated by a temperament full of vigour and See also:fire. These qualities enabled her to See also:play with success such male parts as Romeo and See also:Cardinal See also:Wolsey. During her later years See also:Miss Cushman worked hard as a dramatic reader, in which capacity she was much appreciated.

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appearance on the stage took See also:place on the 15th of May 1875, at the Globe theatre, Boston, in which See also:city she died on the 18th of See also:February 1876. See Emma Stebbins's Charlotte Cushman, her Letters and Memories of her See also:Life (Boston, 1878) ; H. A. Clapp's Reminiscences of a Dramatic Critic (Boston, 1902) ; and W. T. See also:Price, A Life of Charlotte Cushman (New See also:York, 1894).

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