| 词条 | Theresa Yelverton |
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LifeLongworth was born in Cheetwood, Manchester, Lancashire, England, the youngest of seven children born to Thomas Longworth, a silk manufacturer.[2] After meeting Major William Charles Yelverton, Viscount Avonmore on a steamer in August 1852, falling in love with him, and pursuing him for several years, she married him secretly on 15 August 1857 at Rostrevor, County Down, Ireland, allowing her to be styled as, and to have earned the title, "Thérèse Yelverton, Viscountess Avonmore". She was a nurse in 1857 in Galata, Russia during the Crimean War. However, the Viscount remarried within the year, bringing about a series of trials (most notably, Thelwall v. Yelverton, between 21 February 1861 and 4 March 1861) during the course of which he allegedly used his influence with the House of Lords to annul his first marriage. The case brought notoriety and created very mixed feelings. "Theresa was alternately vilified and celebrated, portrayed as a victim who had been 'mercilessly abandoned' and accused of being a lascivious seducer. Sometimes she was depicted as innocent and pure, at others as a ruthless social climber. After six years of trials and appeals, she finally lost her case. In the process, however, she had become a minor celebrity."[3] Afterwards, she led an itinerant life and supported herself by writing about her travels. Francis Farquhar wrote that she "spent the summer of 1870 in Yosemite, where she attached herself to the Hutchings family and made eyes at John Muir. He escaped to the woods, but not before she had noted enough of his conversation and his ways of life to make him over into Kenmuir, the hero of her novel."[4] DeathShe died in 1881 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. References1. ^History Ireland Magazine (2005) The Yelverton Affair; retrieved 9 December 2005 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061031161455/http://www.historyireland.com/magazine/features/13.1FeatA.html |date=October 31, 2006 }} 2. ^{{cite book|last1=Boase|first1=Frederic|title=Modern English Biography: I-Q|date=1897|publisher=Netherton and Worth|page=1521|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_IVmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1521|accessdate=14 July 2017|language=en}} 3. ^Andrea Wulf, "[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Wulf-t.html He's Not That Into You]" (review of Schama biography), New York Times, 2 April 2010 4. ^Francis Farquhar, Yosemite, the Big Trees and the High Sierra (University of California Press, 1948), pg. 45 External links
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