she did on August 5, and legally returned to her maiden name. Borthwick joined Wright at Taliesin that month, which was then being constructed. The press became aware of the couple living together at Taliesin shortly before Christmas 1911. The editor of the Spring Green newspaper (the Weekly Home News) condemned Wright for bringing scandal to the village. The press, which reported the European trip as a "spiritual hegira", called Borthwick and Wright "soul mates" and also referred to Taliesin as the "love castle" or "love bungalow". Chicago newspapers criticized Wright, implying that he would soon be arrested for immorality, despite statements from the local sheriff that he could not prove that the couple was doing anything wrong. Most of their friends and acquaintances considered their open closeness to be scandalous, especially since Catherine had refused to agree to a divorce. The scandal affected Wright's career for several years; he did not receive his next major commission, the Midway Gardens, until 1913. Murder On August 15, 1914, Julian Carlton, a male servant from Barbados who had been hired several months earlier and was apparently mentally unstable, set fire to the living quarters of Taliesin and murdered seven people with an axe as they fled the burning structure. The dead included Borthwick; her two visiting children, John and Martha Cheney; David Lindblom, a gardener; a draftsman named Emil Brodelle; Thomas Bunker, a workman; and Ernest Weston, the son of Wright's carpenter William Weston, who himself was injured but survived. Thomas Fritz also survived the mayhem, and Weston helped to put out the fire that almost completely consumed the residential wing of the house. In hiding, Carlton swallowed muriatic acid immediately following the attack in an attempt to kill himself. When found, he was nearly lynched on the spot, but was instead taken to the Dodgeville jail. Carlton died from starvation seven weeks after the attack, despite medical attention. At the time of the attack, Wright was overseeing work on Midway Gardens in Chicago. In popular culture A detailed nonfiction account of the tragedy at Taliesin is provided in Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders by William R. Drennan. Borthwick's time with Frank Lloyd Wright is the basis of Loving Frank, a novel by Nancy Horan. Mamah is also a subject of T.C. Boyle's 2009 twelfth novel, The Women. An opera, Shining Brow, covers the story