Wild romance
Subtitle: the true story of a Victorian scandal
By: Chloë Schama
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Clipper large print
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rearsby [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781407435244
Subjects: Social life and customs; Trials, litigation; Aristocracy (Social class); Travel; Bigamy; Marriage; Upper class women; Voyages around the world; Manners and customs; Trials (Bigamy); Biography; History
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.
Table of contents: title: "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; title: 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."; title: Back cover.