Cases decided in the Court of Session ... Longworth or Yelverton v. Yelverton, and Yelverton v. Longworth, December 19, 1862
Title | Cases decided in the Court of Session ... Longworth or Yelverton v. Yelverton, and Yelverton v. Longworth, December 19, 1862 PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Theresa LONGWORTH (calling herself Maria Theresa Yelverton, Viscountess Avonmore.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1863 |
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Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Teind Court, Etc. and House of Lords
Title | Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Teind Court, Etc. and House of Lords PDF eBook |
Author | Scotland. Court of Session |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1340 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
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Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Teind Court, Court of Exchequer and House of Lords
Title | Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Teind Court, Court of Exchequer and House of Lords PDF eBook |
Author | Scotland. Court of Session |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1340 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn
Title | Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn PDF eBook |
Author | Lincoln's Inn (London, England). Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1859 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet in Scotland
Title | Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet in Scotland PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas-Graves Law |
Publisher | |
Pages | 700 |
Release | 1882 |
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ISBN |
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet in Scotland
Title | Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet in Scotland PDF eBook |
Author | Signet Library (Great Britain) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 692 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Wild Romance
Title | Wild Romance PDF eBook |
Author | Chloë Schama |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2010-08-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0802719686 |
What started as a friendly conversation between a young girl, Theresa Longworth, and an army officer, William Charles Yelverton, on a steamer bound from France to England in 1852 would culminate nearly a decade later in one of the biggest public scandals the era had witnessed, with enormous implications for society at large. Seized upon by the Victorian press, the trials to legitimize Longworth's marriage to Yelverton before the law courts of Ireland, Scotland, and England brought to the fore several of the most disconcerting matters in the Victorian era: the inadequacies of female education, prejudice against single women, and problems with marriage law. When Theresa Yelverton emerged victorious from her legal battles, she was paraded through Dublin's streets like a queen. Her victory, though, was short-lived, as she learned that life as a single woman-even the life of a well-known writer and traveler, as she became-would always be hard. Theresa Yelverton became an unwitting harbinger of the turmoil of her era and evoked timeless fears and fascinations: the fantasy of romance, the grip of obsession, the plight of unrequited love, the fear of abandonment. Chloe Schama brilliantly recaptures an ordinary woman caught up in an extraordinary affair, catapulted into fame and notoriety, forcing her society to confront some of its most unsettling issues.