the United States as a reader, besides fulfilling several dramatic engagements. Her farewell appearance was announced at least seven times in as many different years. Her final performance in New York was at Booth's theatre, where she played the part of Lady Macbeth. She took a similar demonstrative farewell in the same character in Philadelphia and other cities and her career closed in Boston, at the Globe Theatre, on 15 May 1875. After a reading tour to Rochester, Buffalo, and Syracuse, she retired with a large fortune to her villa at Newport, where she was seized with her final illness. In October she went to Boston and placed herself under medical treatment. Death Charlotte Cushman died of pneumonia in her hotel room on the third floor at the Parker House Hotel in Boston in 1876, aged 59, and was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1915 she was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. Legacy She made England her home for several years, becoming friends with the author Geraldine Jewsbury, who is said to have based a character on Cushman in her 1848 novel The Half Sisters. There is a one-woman play about her titled The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman written by Carolyn Gage. Emma Stebbins' statue The Angel of the Waters, the angel above the fountain in Central Park's Bethesda Terrace, is said to be inspired by Cushman. In 1907, the Charlotte Cushman Club was founded and named in her honor. In 2000, it became the Charlotte Cushman Foundation. Her Charlestown home is a site on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail. Notes and references External links Daguerreotype (Library of Congress) Boston Public Library. Cushman, Charlotte S. (1816-1876) Collection Colorado College Special Collections. Transcriptions of letters from Cushman to Helen Hunt Jackson, 1869-70 another set 1869-1870 and 1871-75 Library of Congress, by way of CC Special Collections. Transcriptions of letters from Helen Hunt Jackson to Cushman, 1871-74 1816 births 1876 deaths 19th-century American actresses American stage actresses American expatriates in Italy American lesbian actresses Actresses from Boston People from North End, Boston American Shakespearean actresses Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery Actresses from Massachusetts Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees LGBT people from Massachusetts Deaths from pneumonia in Massachusetts