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In 1852, on a steamer from France to England, Teresa Longworth meets soldier William Charles Yelverton, later the Viscount of Avonmore. What begins as a flirtation erupts into an affair, and five years later they secretly wed in Edinburgh. That same summer, under Theresa’s insistence, they repeat the ceremony in Dublin—an act that casts doubt on its legality. Yelverton goes on to marry another woman, leaving Theresa to fight in a highly publicized series of trials to prove the validity of her first marriage. The case becomes one of the most scandalous bigamy disputes of Victorian Britain, exposing the social mores and legal complexities surrounding marriage law, upper‑class women, and the era’s trials and litigation.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Chloë Schama
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