Borthwick, Mamah Bouton, 1869-1914

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Name (Latin)
Borthwick, Mamah Bouton, 1869-1914
Other forms of name
Borthwick, Mamah, 1869-1914
Borthwick, Martha, 1869-1914
Cheney, Mamah, 1869-1914
Cheney, Martha Borthwick, 1869-1914
Date of birth
1869-06-19
Date of death
1914-08-15
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Translators
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 9193935
Wikidata: Q2351927
Library of congress: n 2001060987
Sources of Information
  • Building Taliesin, 2012.
  • Horan, Nancy. Loving Frank, c2007:ECIP data view (Mamah Cheney)
  • Key, Ellen Karolina Sofia. Love and ethics, c1912:t.p. (Mamah Bouton Borthwick)
  • LC manual cat.(hdg.: Borthwick, Mamah Bouton, d. 1914; usage: Mamah Bouton Borthwick)
  • Wikipedia, Sept. 17, 2007(Martha "Mamah" Borthwick; b. June 1869; d. Aug. 15, 1914; married Edwin Cheney, 1899 and formally known as Martha Borthwick Cheney; divorced 1911, and she stopped using her husband's name; murdered Aug. 15, 1914 at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, along with her two children and three of Wright's associates and another child) October 5, 2018 (Mamah Borthwick; Martha "Mamah" Borthwick (June 19, 1869-August 15, 1914) was a translator primarily noted for her relationship with Frank Lloyd Wright, which ended when she was murdered; born Boone, Iowa; died Spring Green, Wisconsin)
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Wikipedia description:

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. 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 member of the staff at Taliesin murdered Borthwick, her two children and others. Wright was away at the time.

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