tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-02-18:697195Elisa - My reviews and RamblingsLGBT reviews and ramblings since 2006reviews_and_ramblings2017-02-18T10:16:47Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2011-02-18:697195:5031213Charlotte Saunders Cushman (July 23, 1816 – February 18, 1876)2017-02-18T10:16:47Z2017-02-18T10:16:47Zpublic0Charlotte Saunders Cushman was an American stage actress. Her voice was noted for its full contralto register, and she was able to play both male and female parts. <br />Born: July 23, 1816, Boston, Massachusetts, United States<br />Died: February 18, 1876, Boston, Massachusetts, United States<br />Lived: Omni Parker House, 60 School St, Boston, MA 02108<br />Buried: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA<br />Find A Grave Memorial# 248<br />Books: Fifteen Years in the Senior Order of Shakers: A Narration of Facts, Concerning that Singular People<br /><br />Charlotte Saunders Cushman was an American stage actress. In 1848, Cushman met journalist, writer and part-time actress Matilda Hays. After a short amount of time and some correspondence, they became involved in a lesbian affair. In 1854, Hays left Cushman for lesbian sculptor Harriet Hosmer, which launched a series of jealous interactions among the three women. Hays eventually returned to live with Cushman, but by late 1857, Cushman was secretly involved with lesbian sculptor Emma Stebbins. Emma Stebbins was among the first notable American woman sculptors, her best-known work is the Angel of the Waters (1873), also known as Bethesda Fountain, located on the Bethesda Terrace in Central Park, New York. In 1857, Stebbins moved to Rome quickly becoming involved in the bohemian and feminist lesbian lifestyle in Europe, which was more tolerated there than it would have been back in New York. In 1869, Cushman was treated for breast cancer. Stebbins devoted all her time during that ordeal to nursing her lover, ignoring her work during the next years.<br />Together from 1857 to 1876: 19 years.<br />Charlotte Saunders Cushman (July 23, 1816 – February 18, 1876)<br />Emma Stebbins (September 1, 1815 – October 25, 1882)<br />Matilda Mary Hays (September 8, 1820 – July 3, 1897)<br /><br /><img src="https://scontent-mxp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16832291_1550644254969651_692448094624576685_n.jpg?oh=aa28dac7b4b79276f3ed76c15a64fcb5&oe=58FD7E08" alt="" height="533" width="400" /><br /><br />Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle<br />ISBN-13: 978-1500563325<br />ISBN-10: 1500563323<br />Release Date: September 21, 2014<br />CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/4910282<br />Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500563323/?tag=elimyrevandra-20<br />Amazon (kindle): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MZG0VHY/?tag=elimyrevandra-20<br /><br />With its close proximity to Boston’s Theater District, the Omni Parker House (60 School St, Boston, MA 02108) played an important role for thespians. Many of the XIX century’s finest actors made the Parker House a home away from home, including Charlotte Cushman, Sarah Bernhardt, Edwin Booth, and the latter’s handsome, matinee-idol brother, John Wilkes. Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876) died of pneumonia in her hotel room on the third floor in 1876, aged 59. During the XX century, that list expanded to include stars of stage, screen, and television—including Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Ann Magret, and Marlow Thomas.<br /><br /><img src="https://scontent-mxp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16831947_1550646501636093_6542927295877799444_n.jpg?oh=d2a48a268624ba9e746ddde937339c85&oe=58FF6043" alt="" height="497" width="400" /><br /><br />Queer Places, Vol. 1 edited by Elisa Rolle<br />ISBN-13: 978-1532901904<br />ISBN-10: 1532901909<br />Release Date: July 24, 2016<br />CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/6228297<br />Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/dp/1532901909/?tag=elimyrevandra-20<br />Amazon (kindle): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IZ1BU9K/?tag=elimyrevandra-20<br /><br />Mount Auburn Cemetery is the first rural cemetery in the United States, located on the line between Cambridge and Watertown in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Boston.<br />Address: 580 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA (42.37479, -71.14449)<br />Type: Cemetery (open to public)<br />Hours: Monday through Sunday 8.00-19.00<br />Phone: +1 617-547-7105<br />National Register of Historic Places: 75000254, 1975. Also National Historic Landmarks.<br />Place<br />With classical monuments set in a rolling landscaped terrain, Mount Auburn Cemetery marked a distinct break with Colonial-era burying grounds and church-affiliated graveyards. The appearance of this type of landscape coincides with the rising popularity of the term "cemetery,” derived from the Greek for "a sleeping place." This language and outlook eclipsed the previous harsh view of death and the afterlife embodied by old graveyards and church burial plots. The 174-acre (70 ha) cemetery is important both for its historical aspects and for its role as an arboretum. It is Watertown’s largest contiguous open space and extends into Cambridge to the east, adjacent to the Cambridge City Cemetery and Sand Banks Cemetery.<br />Notable queer burials are at Mount Auburn Cemetery:<br />• Roger Brown (1925–1997), professor at Harvard University from 1952 until 1957 and from 1962 until 1994, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1957 until 1962. During his time at the University of Michigan, he met Albert Gilman, later a Shakespeare scholar and a professor of English at Boston University. Gilman and Brown were partners for over 40 years until Gilman's death from lung cancer in 1989. Brown's sexual orientation and his relationship with Gilman were known to a few of his closest friends, and he served on the editorial board of The Journal of Homosexuality from 1985, but he did not come out publicly until 1989. Brown chronicled his personal life with Gilman and after Gilman's death in his memoir. Brown died in 1997, and is buried next to Gilman.<br />• Katharine Ellis Coman (1857-1915), author on economic subjects who lived with Katharine Lee Bates (Author of "America the Beautiful"), and died at her home, was cremated at Mount Auburn Cemetery but was buried with her parents at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Ohio.<br />• Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), actress, her last partner was lesbian sculptor Emma Stebbins, who sculpted Angels of the Water on Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, New York City.<br />• Martha May Eliot (1891–1978), was a foremost pediatrician and specialist in public health, an assistant director for WHO, and an architect of New Deal and postwar programs for maternal and child health. She was a scion of the Eliot family, an influential American family that is regarded as one of the Boston Brahmins, originating in Boston, whose ancestors became wealthy and held sway over the American education system in the late XIX and early XX centuries. Her father, Christopher Rhodes Eliot, was a Unitarian minister, and her grandfather, William G. Eliot, was the first chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. The poet, playwright, critic, and Nobel laureate T.S. Eliot was her first cousin. During undergraduate study at Bryn Mawr College she met Ethel Collins Dunham, who was to become her life partner.<br />• Mary Katherine Keemle "Kate" Field (1838-1896), American journalist, lecturer, and actress, of eccentric talent. She was the daughter of actors Joseph M. Field and Eliza Riddle. Kate Field never married. In October 1860, while visiting his mother's home in Florence, she met the celebrated British novelist Anthony Trollope. She became one of his closest friends and was the subject of Trollope's high esteem. Trollope scholars have speculated on the nature of their warm friendship. Twenty-four of his letters to Kate survive, at the Boston Public Library; hers to Trollope do not.<br />• Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915), author and hostess; wife of James Thomas Fields, later companion to Sarah Orne Jewett. <br />• Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) was a leading American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. She founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.<br />• Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1830-1908), sculptor. She was devoted for 25 years to Lady Ashburton, widow of Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton (died 1864). Lady Ashburton was born Louisa Caroline Stewart-Mackenzie, youngest daughter of James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie. Hosmer was good friend with Charlotte Cushman and Matilda Hays, Cushman’s partner, left Charlotte for her.<br />• Alice James (1848-1892) (in the nearby Cambridge Cemetery), American diarist. The only daughter of Henry James, Sr. and sister of psychologist and philosopher William James and novelist Henry James, she is known mainly for the posthumously published diary that she kept in her final years. Her companion was Katherine Peabody Loring and from their relationship it was conied the term “Boston Marriage”.<br />• Henry James (1843-1916) (in the nearby Cambridge Cemetery), American writer. He is regarded as one of the key figures of XIX century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.<br />• Amy Lowell (1874–1925), poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. <br />• Abby Adeline Manning (1836-1906), painter, and her partner, Anne Whitney (1821-1915), poet and sculptor, together. <br />• Stewart Mitchell (1892–1957) was an American poet, editor, and professor of English literature. Along with Gilbert Seldes, Mitchell’s editorship of The Dial magazine signaled a pivotal shift in content from political articles to aesthetics in art and literature. In 1929 he became the editor of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Richard Cowan (1909-1939)’s diary, which he started while he was a student at Cornell, chronicles the life of a young gay man in Boston in the 1930s. Cowan committed suicide at the age of thirty. His forty-seven-year old mentor and long-term lover, Stewart Mitchell, was devastated. Mitchell resigned as president of the Massachusetts Historical Society on account of a “personal misfortune,” and wrote a friend, “There is no running away from a broken heart.” According to the Boston Herald Nov. 9, 1957: “Mitchell directed that the urn containing his mortal remains be buried, “but not in winter,” in the lot “where my dear friends Georgine Holmes Thomas and Richard David Cowan now repose”.”<br />• Francis Williams Sargent (1848 - 1920) and Jane Welles Hunnewell Sargent (1851 - 1936), Margarett Williams Sargent’s parents. Margarett Sargent (1892-1978) was born into the privileged world of old Boston money; she was a distant relative of John Singer Sargent.<br />• Henry Davis Sleeper (1878-1934), a nationally-noted antiquarian, collector, and interior decorator, who had a long lasting friendship with A. Piatt Andrew, an economist, an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, the founder and director of the American Ambulance Field Service during WWI, and a United States Representative from Massachusetts. <br /><br /><img src="https://scontent-mxp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16708727_1550647314969345_6709753536126722730_n.jpg?oh=9d381d7c36cfc0d67f4d0f20debd9708&oe=592C4C97" height="598" width="400" alt="" /><br /><br />Queer Places, Vol. 1 edited by Elisa Rolle<br />ISBN-13: 978-1532901904<br />ISBN-10: 1532901909<br />Release Date: July 24, 2016<br />CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/6228297<br />Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/dp/1532901909/?tag=elimyrevandra-20<br />Amazon (kindle): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IZ1BU9K/?tag=elimyrevandra-20<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=reviews_and_ramblings&ditemid=5031213" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments