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Charlotte Cushman: When Romeo Was a Woman
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Charlotte Cushman: When Romeo Was a Woman

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Charlotte Cushman was a 19th-century theatrical icon, so famous and beloved that, like Beyoncé today, newspapers called her by just her first name. But her fame wasn’t for conventionally Victorian feminine portrayals.