During her time in America, MTL
became friends with writer Bret Harte
and conservationist John Muir
.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
165
Among Muir's biographers, Frederick Turner argues that Longworth was in love with Muir, on the grounds that...
Publishing
Maria Theresa Longworth
She had decided by 29 July 1870 to begin writing this novel. It was published by the American group Hurd and Houghton
, which later became the Riverside Press
.
Gifford, Terry, editor. John Muir. Mountaineers, 1996.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
164
MTL
bases central characters on Scots-American conservationist John Muir
, and the young Florence Hutchings
(the first white child to be born in Yosemite)...
