Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin.
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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | Lloyd was the daughter of the squire of Rhagatt in Merionethshire, Wales; a maiden aunt in the family had been a friend of the Ladies of Llangollen (Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
)... |
| 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. |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hamilton | While in Wales they visited Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(the ladies of Llangollen) and in the Lakes they stayed with Elizabeth Smith
and her family. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1: 152-4 Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 151 |
| Reception | Eliza Haywood | In 1795, by which time the novel was generally disapproved as coarse and sexually explicit, a correspondent of the Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
defended it in terms which acknowledged its indelicate language and its... |
| 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
). |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Harriet Lee | The Critical Review (which thought the first volume of Canterbury Tales resembled the work of Marmontel
, but happily without his profligate principles) was enthusiastic: We expect the second volume with impatience, as we have... |
| Dedications | J. S. Anna Liddiard | JSAL
published at DublinKenilworth and Farley Castle: with other Poems, dedicated to two famous Irishwomen, Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of Llangollen. Liddiard, J. S. Anna. Kenilworth and Farley Castle: with Other Poems. Hibernia–Press Office. prelims |
| Friends, Associates | J. S. Anna Liddiard | She wrote that Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of Llangollen, treated her with very kind and flattering attention when she visited them. Liddiard, J. S. Anna. Kenilworth and Farley Castle: with Other Poems. Hibernia–Press Office. prelims |
| Textual Features | J. S. Anna Liddiard | The first poem, Kenilworth Castle. A Masque, was published separately at both Dublin and London in 1815 (after the battle of Waterloo put a new face on English patriotism), and is again dedicated to... |
| 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Lister | The Leeds Mercury then published a spoof marriage announcement between Ann Walker and Captain Tom Lister of Shibden Hall.AL
thought this merely funny (unlike Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Charlotte Nooth | The copy at the University of Alberta
has nine names added in manuscript to the end of a subscribers list which already includes Mary Matilda Betham
, Lady Eleanor Butler
, Harriet Bowdler
and her... |
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