Wild romance

By Chloë Schama

Subjects: Marriage, Great britain, history, 19th century, Biography, Trials, litigation, Upper class women, Women, biography, Manners and customs, Great britain, biography, Great britain, social conditions, Bigamy, Voyages around the world, Social life and customs, Single women, Aristocracy (Social class), Women, great britain, Marriage law, great britain, Scandals, History, Trials (Bigamy), Travel

Description: "In 1852, on a steamer from France to England, Theresa Longworth met William Charles Yelverton, a soldier destined to become the Viscount of Avonmore. The flirtation soon blossomed into an affair and five years later they married secretly in Edinburgh. Then, that same summer, at Theresa's urging, they married again in Dublin - or did they? Yelverton then married another woman, and an abandoned Theresa found herself forced to prove the validity of her marraige in a series of scandalous and very public trials."--Back cover.