Ellen Bayuk Rosenman

Standard Name: Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk

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Birth Maria Theresa Longworth
MTL was born at Cheetwood near Manchester.
Boase 's Modern English Biography gives her date of birth as 1827 while Ellen Bayuk Rosenman suggests 1833.
Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
death Maria Theresa Longworth
Ellen Bayuk Rosenman feels that her death brought her a personal, posthumous victory to the extent that her obituary in the Natal Witnesslegitimated her self-constructed identity, affirmed her self-proclaimed innocence, and overturned the final...
Literary responses Maria Theresa Longworth
Such autobiographical moments in the novel apparently inspired Duncan Crow to use direct quotations from Martyrs in his biography of MTL , Theresa: The Story of the Yelverton Case, 1966.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
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The Athenæum...
Literary responses Maria Theresa Longworth
While MTL 's works were never hugely successful, Rosenman notes that they accomplished a great deal in and of themselves: In place of a single partner, Longworth substituted a readership; in place of the woman's...
Other Life Event Maria Theresa Longworth
Jeanne Fahnestock notes that the trial brought Catholic and Protestant, manufacturing and aristocratic interests into antagonism and dramatized the absurdities and inequities of the marriage laws in England, Ireland, and Scotland.
Fahnestock, Jeanne. “Bigamy: The Rise and Fall of a Convention”. Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1981, pp. 47-71.
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Recent commentators have...
Textual Features Maria Theresa Longworth
She provid[ed] commentary, reorder[ed] some of the letters, and explain[ed] events that had taken place between them with her own connecting narrative.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
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In her introduction to the work she declares, I stand alone...
Textual Features Maria Theresa Longworth
The story is set in Yosemite in California.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
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MTL bases central characters on Scots-American conservationist John Muir , and the young Florence Hutchings (the first white child to be born in Yosemite)...

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Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.