I’ve chosen two biographies of Charlotte Cushman to synchronize with the podcast about her. The one in this entry directly engages with Cushman’s same-sex desires and relationships and examines how she curated her own reputation with regard to her personal life, as well as examining how changing attitudes toward same-sex relations after Cushman’s death may have contributed to a deliberate erasure of her legacy. The second biography that I’ll be covering next week is a more conventional, conservative approach that can be seen to participate in that erasure (at least as far as her personal life is concerned).
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