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Jun 8, 2017 · Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Frank Lloyd Wright’s mistress. The dining room burst into flames. The door was slammed shut and locked. With his clothes burning and hair afire, Fritz jumped out the...
Aug 24, 2007 · Mamah Borthwick Cheney wrote in 1911 that she had “made a choice in harmony with my own soul” after leaving her husband and young children to build a life with Frank Lloyd Wright. But...
Aug 18, 2022 · The mistress of Frank Lloyd Wright, Mamah Borthwick was killed by an ax-wielding servant at Taliesin, Wright's Wisconsin home, on August 15, 1914.
- Jessica Oconnor
Photo is of Mamah Borthwick Cheney who fled with Frank Lloyd Wright to a `Love Hegira' in Japan, and who died in the flames of the 'Love Bungalow' of herself and Wright, at Spring Green, Wis. Note: Chicago Herald & Examiner of November 15th carried story of Frank Lloyd Wright divorce."
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.
Mar 16, 2023 · In A Brave and Lovely Woman, author Mark Borthwick examines the life and work of Mamah Borthwick—the woman often referred to in sensational terms as Frank Lloyd Wright’s “mistress”— revealing a serious scholar of language, of feminist thought, and modern modes of living for men and women in early 20 th Century America.
Dec 26, 2017 · At the intersection of those two spheres sits Taliesin, Wright’s terrifically tragic pièce de résistance. By the time he met Martha “Mamah” Borthwick Cheney, the woman who would become his mistress, Wright had more than made a name for himself.
