Lady Romeo The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity Audiobook

Lady Romeo is a beautiful book by author Tana Wojczuk.
All her life, Charlotte Cushman did not succumb to the expectations of others. Growing up in Boston at the time of the Transcendentalists, a series of disasters paved the way for her life on stage—the path she eagerly chose. She rejected marriage and created a life of adventure, playing heroes in and out of space. She successfully went to New Orleans and New York City, and eventually to London and back to build a career. Her Hamlet, Romeo, Lady Macbeth, and Nancy Sykes from Oliver Twist became typical, impressing Louisa May Alcott, who later based her character on Jo’s Boys, and Walt Whitman, who raved about it. praising “the exalted greatness of her genius” in her work. column for Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

She acted alongside Edwin and John Wilkes Booth – believed to have given the latter a scar on his neck that was later used to identify him as President Lincoln’s assassin – and visited frequently. The Great Liberator himself, an avid Shakespeare fan and admirer of Cushman’s work.

Her wife made her immortal in the angel atop Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain; worldwide, she is “a woman universally acknowledged as the greatest living tragedy actress.” Behind the scenes, she’s equally radical, earning an independent income, supporting her family, creating one of the first bohemian artists’ colonies abroad and living openly as a woman. homosexual. And yet, her name also fades into the dark.

Her story comes to life brilliantly with Tana Wojczuk’s Lady Romeo, a delightful and enlightening biography of the 19th-century pioneer. With new research and rare letters and documents, Wojczuk re-creates recreates the formative years of Cushman’s life, set in the excitement and drama of 1800s New York City and featuring a cast of celebrities and revolutionaries who changed forever. cultural context of the United States.

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