RARE \"Irish Law Case\" Theresa Yelverton Clipped Signature For Sale

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RARE \"Irish Law Case\" Theresa Yelverton Clipped Signature:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Irish Law Case" Theresa Yelverton Clipped Signature. 

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Theresa Yelverton (née Maria

Theresa Longworth; c. 1827–33 – 13 September 1881) was an English woman who became notorious because of her

involvement in the Yelverton case, a 19th-century Irish law case, which eventually resulted in a change to

the law on mixed religion marriages in Ireland. Longworth

was born in Cheetwood, Manchester, Lancashire, England, the

youngest of seven children born to Thomas Longworth, a silk manufacturer.[2] After meeting Major

William Charles Yelverton, Viscount Avonmore on a steamer in

August 1852, falling in love with him, and pursuing him for several years, she

married him secretly on 15 August 1857 at Rostrevor, County Down, Ireland, allowing her to be styled as,

and to have earned the title, "Thérèse Yelverton, Viscountess

Avonmore". She was a nurse in 1857 in Galata, Russia during the Crimean War. However, the Viscount remarried within the year,

bringing about a series of trials (most notably, Thelwall v.

Yelverton, between 21 February 1861 and 4 March 1861) during the

course of which he allegedly used his influence with the House of Lords to annul his first marriage. The case

brought notoriety and created very mixed feelings. "Theresa was

alternately vilified and celebrated, portrayed as a victim who had been

'mercilessly abandoned' and accused of being a lascivious seducer. Sometimes

she was depicted as innocent and pure, at others as a ruthless social climber.

After six years of trials and appeals, she finally lost her case. In the

process, however, she had become a minor celebrity." Afterwards,

she led an itinerant life and supported herself by writing about her

travels. Francis Farquhar wrote

that she "spent the summer of 1870 in Yosemite, where she attached herself to the Hutchings family

and made eyes at John 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."  She died in 1881 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa.

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