Martha Bouton "Mamah" Borthwick (June 19, 1869 – August 15, 1914) was an American translator who had a romantic relationship with architect Frank Lloyd Wright, which ended when she was murdered.[1] She and Wright were instrumental in bringing the ideas and writings of Swedish feminist Ellen Key to American audiences. Wright built his famous settlement called Taliesin in Wisconsin for her, in part, to shield her from aggressive reporters and the negative public sentiment surrounding their non-married status. Both had left their spouses and children in 1909 in order to live together and were the subject of relentless public censure. In 1914, a disturbed member of the staff at Taliesin suddenly went on a murder-suicide spree at the estate killing Borthwick, two of her children and others. Wright was away at the time.
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Martha Bouton "Mamah" Borthwick (June 19, 1869 – August 15, 1914) was an American translator who had a romantic relationship with architect Frank Lloyd...
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neighbor in Oak Park), he became enamored of Cheney's wife, MamahBorthwick Cheney. Mamah was a modern woman with interests outside the home. She was...
from his father in 1909, when Frank abandoned his family to be with MamahBorthwick Cheney. John was accepted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison shortly...
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Bureau of Education 2000) Borthwick, Mamah; Friedman, Alice T. (June 2002). "Frank Lloyd Wright and Feminism: MamahBorthwick's Letters to Ellen Key". Journal...
historical fiction. Her works include Loving Frank, a novel about MamahBorthwick and her relationship with American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and...
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initial design. However, after Wright fled to Europe with his mistress MamahBorthwick, one of his assistant architects, Marion Mahony Griffin, one of the...
studio and home, Taliesin in Wisconsin (including Wright's mistress, MamahBorthwick), and set it on fire. American explorer and mountaineer Dora Keen led...
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hold the largest number of graduate degrees held by a living person MamahBorthwick (BA 1892), mistress of architect Frank Lloyd Wright who was murdered...
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studio and home, Taliesin in Wisconsin (including Wright's mistress, MamahBorthwick), and sets it on fire. Lucy Greenish is the first woman to become a...
Laura Caskey Bowsher DeRhodes. After Wright went off to Europe with MamahBorthwick Cheney in 1909, Isabel Roberts was among the remaining Oak Park Studio...
several well-known Wright's commissions, including the home of Edwin and MamahBorthwick Cheney in Oak Park, the Frederick Robie House in Chicago, the Susan...
(grandson) Maginel Wright Enright (sister) Richard Bock (associate) MamahBorthwick (client and lover) Marion Griffin (associate) Walter Burley Griffin...
studio and home, Taliesin in Wisconsin (including Wright's mistress, MamahBorthwick), and sets it on fire. September 1 – The last known passenger pigeon...
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