Title: Wild romance
Description: What started as a friendly conversation between Theresa Longworth and 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 ever witnessed, with enormous implications for society at large.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Trials, litigation, Aristocracy (Social class), Travel, Bigamy, Marriage, Upper class women, Voyages around the world, Trials (Bigamy), Biography, History, Women, biography, Great britain, biography, Marriage law, great britain, Single women, Scandals, Great britain, history, 19th century
Places: England, Dublin, Ireland
People: Thérèse Yelverton Viscountess Avonmore (1832?-1881), William Charles Yelverton Avonmore Viscount (1824-1883)
Time periods: 19th century