- Theresa Yelverton
James Hutchings. Carte-de-Visite by James Reilly.Thérèse Yelverton (c. 1832-1836 - 1881) Author.
Born circa 1832 as Maria Teresa Longworth, in Cheetwood,
Linconshire, England .She married Major William Charles Yelverton, Viscount Avonmore in 1857, and became Thérèse Yelverton, Viscountess Avonmore.However, the bigamist Viscount remarried then used his influence with the BritishHouse of Lords to annul his earlier marriage to Thérèse Yelverton.The case had much notoriety, with great support for her by the public.The Viscount Avonmore was hung in effegy and he had to briefly go into hiding.Her family's small fortune was robbed by her husband, so she supported herself by writing about her travels.From
Francis Farquhar : she ". . . spent the summer of 1870 in Yosemite, where she attached herself to the Hutchings family and made eyes atJohn Muir .He escaped to the woods, but not before she had noted enough of his conversation and his ways of life to make him over into Kenmuir, the hero of her novel."Although fictional, the characters in the novel are thinly-disguised and provide a useful peek into Yosemite of the early 1870s, especially of a young John Muir.Mrs. Yelverton continued to tour the world and write about her adventures.Thérèse Yelverton died September 13, 1881 in Natal, South Africa.External links and references
* [http://www.yosemite.ca.us/john_muir_writings/the_life_and_letters_of_john_muir/chapter_9.html "Persons and Problems," William Frederic Badè, "Life and Letters of John Muir"] (1924)
*Linnie Marsh Wolfe, "Son of the Wilderness", pp. 136-142 (1946) discusses Yelverton and Muir. ISBN 0-299-18634-2
* [http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/zanita/ "Zanita: A Tale of the Yo-semite"] (1872)
*"Introduction" and "Preface" from the 1991 reprint of "Zanita", by Margaret Sanborn and Kate Reed, respectively. ISBN 0-89815-410-3
* [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bibperm?q1=ahj1472-1363over-74 "Tale of a Tooth", "Overland Monthly" 11:5 pp. 434-439 (November 1873)] Yelverton's article on Budda's tooth
*Charles Warren Stoddard, [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/calbk:@field(DOCID+@lit(calbk002)):"In the Footprints of the Padres" (San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1902)] (Library of Congress American Memory) discusses Mrs. Yelverton
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