by Tana Wojczuk
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, 121
Recession, 13–14
Renaissance, 130
Reni, Guido, 131–32
Revolutionary War, 23, 121
Rheumatic fever, 49
Richard III (Shakespeare), 31
Romantics, 88
Rome, 6, 118, 145–46, 150–51, 159 expatriate women’s artists’ colony in, 126, 129–40, 165
Romeo and Juliet, 97 Charlotte as Romeo in, 3, 5, 7, 58, 60, 97, 100–107, 111–12, 121, 126, 136, 142, 144–45, 174
costars as Juliet in, 100–103, 112–13, 118, 142
versions of text of, 101–2, 179
Rossini, Ghioachino, 29
Royal Theatre (London), 46
St. Charles Theatre (New Orleans), 34–35, 40
St. James Theatre (New Orleans), 34
St. Louis, Missouri, 121, 124, 141, 142, 144
St. Paul’s Chapel (New York City), 44, 71
Salem, Massachusetts, 10, 22
“Salve Regina” (Stoddard), 3
Sand, George, 109, 118, 126–27
Saratoga, New York, 163
San Francisco Chronicle, 173
Sargent, John Singer, 161
Sault Saint Marie, Michigan, 125
Scènes de La Vie de Boheme (Murger), 108
Scotland, 29, 94
Scott, Walter, 60–65, 174
Seminoles, 14
Seneca Falls Convention, 120
Seward, Fanny, 153–55, 159
Seward, Frances, 153, 159
Seward, Fred, 159
Seward, William, 150, 152, 154, 156, 159
Shakespeare, William, 9, 13, 22, 80–82, 167–68, 178–80 Charlotte’s intellectual understanding of, 78, 83
enthusiasm in 19th century America for, 3–4, 23, 47–48
Lincoln’s appreciation of, 150, 156
See also titles of plays and names of characters
Sheffield, England, 112
Shelley, Mary, 14
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 131
Shylock (character in Merchant of Venice), 143
Siddons, Sarah, 14, 22, 27, 98 as Lady Macbeth, 36–38, 37
as Hamlet, 81–82
Simpson, Edmund, 46, 59, 60, 65–66, 77
Simpson, James, 159–60
Slavery, 33, 34, 85, 120, 149 marriage for women as form of, 10, 135
opposition to, 108, 115, 153
Slums, 48, 71–72
Smith, Adam, 88
Southey, Robert, 88
Spain, 33
Spanish Steps (Rome), 129–30
Star (steamship), 41
Statue of Liberty (New York City), 2
Surgery, 5, 158–60
Steamships, 33, 41, 151
Stebbins, Emma, 4–6, 140, 141, 144–45, 159 as caregiver, 159–60, 169–70
in Newport, 164–65
in Rome, 139–40, 145–46
sculptor career of, 5, 146–47, 160
Stebbins, Henry, 147
Stoddard, Richard, 3
Story, William Wetmore, 133–34
Sturbridge, Massachusetts, 11
Sully, Blanche, 80, 89
Sully, Rosalie “Rose,” 79–81, 81, 83–90, 98–99, 111
Sully, Thomas, 79–80, 98–99
Surgery, 5, 158–60
Swift, Henry, 151–52
Tammany Hall (New York), 6
Tap dancing, 73
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 88
Thoreau, Henry David, 77
Tilden, Samuel, 2
Times of London, 104
Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 106
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 9
Tombs prison (New York City), 71
Tourists, 72, 129, 180
Transcendental Club, 77
Tree, Ellen, 98
Tremont Theatre (Boston), 11, 19, 24, 26, 28, 40
Trollope, Frances, 34, 75
Tudor Hall (Booth family home), 143
Twain, Mark, 152, 171
Tybalt (character in Romeo and Juliet), 103
Underground Railroad, 120
Union Army, 150–51 Sanitary Commission of, 151
Unitarian church, 27
Upham, Charles W., 22
Vandenhoff, George, 96, 178
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 2
Vermont, 12
Victoria, Queen, 105, 160
Virginia, 150, 158
Voyage of the Beagle, The (Darwin), 88
Wales, 91
Walking lady roles, 59, 65, 66, 101
Walnut Theatre (Philadelphia), 77–78, 86
War of 1812, 9, 13–14
Washington, D.C., 8, 152–55
Washington, George, 44–45
Whitman, Walt, 7, 73, 98, 108, 125–26 Poetry of, 10
reviews of Charlotte’s performances by, 65, 77
Wickham, William, 2
Winter Garden (New York City), 157
Winter, William, 96
Winter’s Tale, A (Shakespeare), 106
Women’s rights, 8, 108–9, 135, 142 restrictions on, 7, 10, 18, 73
Wood, Joseph, 29, 30
Wood, Mary Ann, 28–31
Wordsworth, William, 88
Year Without a Summer, 12
Young America movement, 23
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