Lady Romeo, стр. 51
in Albany, 51–53
birth of children of, 13–15
boardinghouse run by, 17–19
husband’s abandonment of, 17, 21, 28, 57
in London, 112, 113
marriage of, 11–12
in New York City, 50, 58, 66, 67, 69, 70
Cushman, Susan (Charlotte’s sister), 51, 66–67, 69, 70, 84, 103, 112
childhood of, 14, 17
as Juliet, 100–2
at Laurence salon, 109
marriage to Merriman of, 57–58, 66, 67
in Newport, 161
remarriage of, 113
son of, see Cushman, Charles Edwin “Ned”
Cushman School (Boston), 172
Darwin, Charles, 88
Debt collectors, 17
Democracy in America (Tocqueville), 9
Democratic Party, 149
Desdemona (character in Othello), 107
De Staël, Mme. Anna Louise Germaine 87–88
Dickens, Charles, 25, 69–72, 75–77, 113, 124, 174
America criticized by, 93–94
Five Points visited by, 71–72
Dickinson, Emily, 10, 74, 165
Dix, John Adams, 2
Douglas, Stephen A., 149
Douglass, Frederick, 120
Dupin, Amantine Lucile Aurore, see George Sand
Ecuador, 160
Egypt, 10
Elizabeth I, Queen, 87
Emerson, Ellen, 27–28
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 10, 27–28, 51, 52, 77, 169
England, 23, 25, 36, 48, 55, 79, 108, 115–19, 124, 126, 151
touring in, 113
Victorian, 119
voyage to, 87–91, 93–94
See also London and other municipalities
Erie
Canal (New York State), 52
Fagin (character in Oliver Twist), 75
Fastnet Rock (Ireland), 91
Faucit, Helen, 94, 117
Female Husband, The (novel), 119
Ferris, George T., 167–68
Fifth Avenue Hotel (New York City), 6
Fireman’s ball (Albany), 53, 54
Five Points (New York City), 71–73, 76
Five Wise Virgins, 134–35
Flaubert, Gustave, 44
Florida, 14
Fontana della Barcaccia (Rome), 129
Ford’s Theatre (Washington, D.C.), 155, 157–58
Forrest, Edwin, 78, 95–99, 116–18, 120, 125
Fort Sumpter, 150
Fourier, Charles, 108
France, 2, 26, 29, 33, 88, 94, 108, 117
Franklin, Benjamin, 12
Gardette, Lizzie, 88
Garland, Mrs., 165
Garrick, David, 86, 101–2
Garrick (ship), 86, 88, 91, 93–94
Gaslight, 27, 40, 74
Germany, 71
Gettysburg Address, 8, 156
Globe Theatre (London), 22
Goneril (role in King Lear), 86
Greek drama, 22, 173, 174
Greeley, Horace, 70
Greenbush Classical School (Albany), 51, 52
Greenwood, Grace, 125, 127, 130, 132, 134, 137
Grover’s Theatre (Washington, D.C., 155
Guy Mannering (Scott), 60–65, 63, 75
See also Meg Merrilies
Hackett, James, 155
Hamblin, Thomas, 41, 46, 47
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 12, 22, 41, 121
Charlotte as, 3, 81–83, 121, 125–26
Siddons as first female to star in, 81–82
Harlem (New York City), 44, 50
Harper’s Bazaar, 173–74
Harvard University, 11
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 7, 10, 22
Hawthorne, Sophia, 7
Hays, Matilda “Max,” 118–19, 124–27, 130, 132, 134–39, 146
Henry VIII (Shakespeare), 3, 124, 126, 167, 174
characters in, 126, 136
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 115–16, 161, 167
Holmes, Mary Ann, 142
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 161
Homer, Winslow, 163, 164
Hosmer, Harriet “Hattie,” 126, 127, 130–36, 139–41
Howard, Horace, 178
Howe, Julia Ward, 161
Howitt, Mary, 109, 112
Hunt, Helen, 159, 165
Hyperion (Longfellow), 89, 124
Illinois, 149, 155
Immigrants, 10, 44, 71, 73, 150
India, 146
Indian Removal Act (1830), 119
Indians, 10, 14, 165
Ireland, 71, 91
Irish Times, 173
Irving, Washington, 163
Italy, 71, 126, 159, 174
Jackson, Andrew, 119
James, Henry, 161, 166–67
James, William, 161, 164, 166–67
Jefferson, Joseph, 48–49
Jewsbury, Geraldine, 110–12
Jolly Bachelors, 126–30, 133–34, 160
Jo’s Boys (Alcott), 8
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 157
Kean, Edmund, 14, 98, 107
Keats, John, 62
Kemble, Fanny, 14, 27, 84–85, 87, 98
King Lear (Shakespeare), 86
King’s Chapel (Boston), 172–73
Knowles, James Sheridan, 106–8
Lady Macbeth, 62
Charlotte as, 3, 8, 36, 38–40, 39, 49, 86, 97, 121, 126, 150, 157, 278
Siddons as, 36–38, 37
Lancet, The, 44
La Scala (Milan), 29
Laurence, Anastasia, 108
Laurence, Samuel, 108, 124
Leopold, Prince, 160
Levine, Lawrence, 177
Lincoln, Abraham, 8, 149–50, 154–59, 172
“Literary Nightmare, A” (Twain), 171
Liverpool (England), 93, 113
London, 87–88, 93–112, 115–16, 146
Charlie Cushman in 96, 112
Charlotte’s arrival in, 93–95
Charlotte’s success in, 97–108, 173
Forrest in, 96–99
Laurence salon in, 108–10
savings for travel to, 78, 83
Susan Cushman in, 100–2, 109, 112
theatres in, 22, 25, 46, 95
women writers in, 109–12
Longfellow, Frances, 124
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 89, 124, 161
Long Wharf (Boston), 16, 18, 55, 91, 169
Macbeth, 97, 120, 150–51, 154–56, 178
See also Lady Macbeth
Macready, William Charles, 95, 98, 99, 102, 113
American tour of, 19, 25–27, 77–79, 86
Charlotte’s demand for equal pay with, 118, 125
riots sparked by competition between Forrest and, 120
Maddox, J. M., 95–96, 99, 101
Madison Square Park (New York City), 6
Maeder, Clara Fischer, 31, 40
Maeder, James, 31, 35, 40
Maine, 14
Manassas, Battle of, 150
Manchester, England, 93
Manhattan, 44, 58, 89
Mann, Horace, 147
Mann, Mary Peabody, 147
Marble Faun, The (Hawthorne), 132
Marc Antony (character in Julius Caesar), 157
Marriage of Figaro, The (Mozart), 29, 33–35
Martin Chuzzelwit (Dickens, 94
Massachusetts, 130–31, 165
Senate House, 147
See also Boston and other municipalities
Mayflower (ship), 11, 73
McDonough, John, 155
Medici family, 130
Meg Merrilies (character in Guy Mannering), 60–65, 63, 73, 95, 121, 126, 174, 178
“Meg Merrillies” (Keats), 62
Melville, Herman, 23
Mendelssohn, Felix, 124
Mercer, Sallie, 86, 87, 95, 141, 170
Merchants’ Exchange (New York City), 46
Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), characters in, 86, 143
Merriman, Charles Edwin “Ned,” see Cushman, Charles Edwin “Ned”
Merriman, Nelson, 57–58, 66
Mexican-American War, 108, 120
Milan, Italy, 29, 34
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 121
Minstrel shows, 66
Missouri Compromise (1920), 14
Mitford, Mary, 115
Mott, Lucretia, 115
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 29, 31
Murger, Henri, 108
Muspratt, James Sheridan, 113
Nancy (prostitute character in Oliver Twist) 69–77, 121, 174, 178
Napoleon, 173
National Guard, 120–21
National Theatre (New York City), 59–66
New England, 12, 31, 33, 103, 131
See also specific states
New Jersey, 44
New Orleans, Louisiana, 31, 33–41, 46, 173
Newport, Rhode Island, 160–61, 163–68
New Variorum of Macbeth (Howard), 178
New York City, 41–51, 109, 144, 160–61, 163, 170–71, 173
Astor Place riots in, 120–21
Burned District in, 45–46
Charlotte’s farewell performance in, 1–7
hotels in, 6, 158
neighborhoods in, 44, 50, 71–73, 72, 76
parks in, 6, 147, 157, 180
politics in, 6
railway lines to, 42–44
St. Paul’s Chapel in, 44, 71
theatres in, 2–4, 14, 41, 45–49, 57, 59–77, 85–86, 101, 116–17, 120, 129, 157, 167 (See also specific theatres)
tours departing from, 124, 142
New York College, 3
New York Evening Post, 3
New York Herald Tribune, 70
New York Times, 126
New York Tribune, 2, 171
“Old Arm-Chair, The” (Cook), 110
Oliver Twist (Dickens), Charlotte as Nancy in, 69–77, 121, 174, 178
Othello (Shakespeare), 106, 107, 143
Oxford University (England), 23
“Paracleseus” (Browning), 93
Paris, France, 29, 94
Parker House (Boston), 170–72
Park Theatre (New York City), 59, 60, 65–69, 101, 116–17, 167
blackface minstrel shows at, 66
Charlotte’s enemies at, 67–68
Oliver Twist at, 69–77
prestige of, 41, 45, 46, 57
walking lady roles at, 65, 66, 101
Pearl Street Theatre (Albany), 54
Pennsylvania Railroad Station (New Jersey), 44
Petite Fadette, La (Sand), 126–27
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 42, 43, 77–78, 84, 86
Phillips, Miss, 98
Piazza del Popolo (Rome), 6
Pierce, Franklin, 149
Poets’ Walk (Central Park), 147
Portia (character in Merchant of Venice), 86
Price, Stephen, 66, 70, 77, 116–17
Princess Theatre (London), 95
Prostitution, 24, 33, 66–67, 69–71, 73–76, 177
in theatres, 18, 21, 41, 47, 82
Prynne, William, 22
Puritans, 11, 22
Queen Katharine (character in Henry VIII), 126, 136, 167, 174, 178
Railroads, 2, 44,