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Lady Romeo - The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity (Paperback)
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Lady Romeo - The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity (Paperback)
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Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the Publishing
Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Finalist for the
Marfield Prize For fans of Book of Ages and American Eve, this
"lively, illuminating new biography" (The Boston Globe) of
19th-century queer actress Charlotte Cushman portrays a "brisk,
beautifully crafted life" (Stacy Schiff, bestselling author of The
Witches and Cleopatra) that riveted New York City and made
headlines across America. All her life, Charlotte Cushman refused
to submit to others' expectations. Raised in Boston at the time of
the transcendentalists, a series of disasters cleared the way for
her life on the stage-a path she eagerly took, rejecting marriage
and creating a life of adventure, playing the role of the hero in
and out of the theater as she traveled to New Orleans and New York
City, and eventually to London and back to build a successful
career. Her Hamlet, Romeo, Lady Macbeth, and Nancy Sykes from
Oliver Twist became canon, impressing Louisa May Alcott, who later
based a character on her in Jo's Boys, and Walt Whitman, who raved
about "the towering grandeur of her genius" in his columns for the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle. She acted alongside Edwin and John Wilkes
Booth-supposedly giving the latter a scar on his neck that was
later used to identify him as President Lincoln's assassin-and
visited frequently with the Great Emancipator himself, who was a
devoted Shakespeare fan and admirer of Cushman's work. Her wife
immortalized her in the angel at the top of Central Park's Bethesda
Fountain; worldwide, she was "a lady universally acknowledged as
the greatest living tragic actress." Behind the scenes, she was
equally radical, making an independent income, supporting her
family, creating one of the first bohemian artists' colonies
abroad, and living publicly as a queer woman. And yet, her name has
since faded into the shadows. Now, her story comes to brilliant
life with Tana Wojczuk's Lady Romeo, an exhilarating and
enlightening biography of the 19th-century trailblazer. With new
research and rarely seen letters and documents, Wojczuk
reconstructs the formative years of Cushman's life, set against the
excitement and drama of 1800s New York City and featuring a cast of
luminaries and revolutionaries who changed the cultural landscape
of America forever. The story of an astonishing and uniquely
American life, Lady Romeo reveals one of the most remarkable
forgotten figures in our history and restores her to center stage,
where she belongs.
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