Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Lady Eleanor Butler
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Standard Name: Butler, Lady Eleanor
Birth Name: Eleanor Butler
Styled: Lady Eleanor Butler
One of the two renowned Ladies of Llangollen, LEB
produced life-writing (diaries, letters, and some poems) during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, which structured, recorded, and celebrated their shared way of life. Today the writing of her partner, Sarah Ponsonby
, is also receiving attention.
HMB
rented a cottage in the village of Llangollen in Denbighshire, to be near her friends Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin.
131
Travel
Anne Lister
AL
visited Plas Newydd at Llangollen in Wales, hoping to meet Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
.
Lister, Anne. I Know My Own Heart. Editor Whitbread, Helena, New York University Press.
194-7
Travel
Jane Loudon
JL
did not entirely give up travelling as a widow. She took her daughter to the south of France in summer 1845, and to Birmingham, Derby, and Chatsworth in 1849.
Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life.
95, 106-7
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Travel
Mary Brunton
On this occasion they went to the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, and Brighton (the consummation of deformity).
Brunton, Mary. Emmeline. Manners and Miller; John Murray.
139
Leaving London without intention of returning, on 25 July 1815, she demanded rhetorically:...
Travel
Sarah Harriet Burney
A high point in this job was a tour in late autumn 1805, from her employers' country seat (Delamere Lodge, near Northwich, Cheshire) through Wales. A high point in the tour was...
Travel
Anna Seward
AS
first visited Llangollen, home of Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
. She stayed some weeks, though by the end of September she was writing to tell them about her journey home.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books.
96-7
Travel
Harriet Lee
HL
and Anna, her youngest sister, spent several weeks travelling in Wales: one of their ports of call was Llangollen.
Editor April Alliston
is not certain whether or not they visited Lady Eleanor Butler
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Colette
Colette imagines the Ladies of Llangollen (Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, born during the eighteenth century) living among twentieth-century accoutrements like cars, cigarettes, and crossword puzzles.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin.
206
They move in the same...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Judith Kazantzis
It includes poems reflecting her experience of winters spent at Key West, Florida, USA, and a tribute to the Ladies of Llangollen (Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
).
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Eva Mary Bell
EMB
's foreword and her comment on her material is brief. She makes skilful use of letters and diaries, not only those of this famous pair but of their friends and supporters Mrs Lucy Goddard
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary Matilda Betham
Here already MMB
evinces her interest in women's literary history: her topics include praise for writers including Ann Radcliffe
and the Ladies of Llangollen (Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
). One of the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
E. Owens Blackburne
EOB
's preface also singles out what she claims to be an original account of the true
Blackburne, E. Owens. Illustrious Irishwomen. Tinsley Brothers.
I: viii
history of the Ladies of Llangollen, Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
. While she...
Textual Production
Hannah More
Mary Ann Burges
's anonymous The Progress of Pilgrim Good-Intent, in Jacobinical Times was widely supposed (for instance by Hester Piozzi
and Lady Eleanor Butler
) to be by Hannah More
.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses.
3: 186-7 and n
Textual Production
Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale
She told her sister
that noe body but your selfe could have obtain'd [this] from me, for whom my obligations has imposed me a law of never refusing any that lys in my power. You...
Textual Production
Ann, Lady Fanshawe
Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the ladies of Llangollen, meticulously transcribed the whole of ALF
's Memoirs (dating from May 1676) as a present for a friend.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin.
62
Timeline
1782: George Romney painted a picture to illustrate...
1 April 1789: Hester Lynch Piozzi (a propos reports about...
Building item
1 April 1789
Hester Lynch Piozzi
(a propos reports about Marie Antoinette
) indignantly recorded what she presents as if it was her first encounter with lesbianism.
March 1908: Mary Louisa Gordon, who had qualified as...
Building item
March 1908
Mary Louisa Gordon
, who had qualified as both a physician and a midwife and had practised medicine in London since 1900, was appointed the first female prison inspector in Britain.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Texts
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, 1930, p. vii - viii; various pages.
Butler, Lady Eleanor, and Sarah Ponsonby. Life with the Ladies of Llangollen. Editor Mavor, Elizabeth, Viking, 1984.
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton. Editor Bell, Eva Mary, Macmillan, 1930.
