Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 14 (1795): 241-55
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Hester Lynch Piozzi | HLP
's first marriage made heterosexuality a burden to her, with constant pregnancy, bearing children who died early and painfully, and tending to her husband's venereal diseases. She recorded what would later be called homophobic... |
| Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Again she had the lead review spot in the Critical, which loved the book and quoted at length. |
| Residence | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | She lived for some years at Llangollen in Wales, recently the home of Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi. xix-xxi |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Seward | AS
became a close friend of Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of Llangollen, whom she called the Rosalind and Celia of real life. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 96-7 |
| Literary responses | Anna Seward | The Critical Review responded with high praise both of AS
(The real lovers of poetry have often lamented that the Muse of Miss Seward should have been so silent) Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 17 (1796):154 |
| Textual Production | Anna Seward | The sonnets numbered a hundred; she had been long in the habit of reading them aloud, and friends like Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
urged her pressingly to publish them. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 226 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | The young Jane Austen
paid Emmeline the compliment of allusion in her comical History of England, 1791.Anna Seward
, on the other hand, condemned CS
for indelicacy because she had exposed her husband's... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Smith | ES
and her mother visited the Ladies of Llangollen (Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
) en route to Ireland, and Elizabeth wrote a long letter to Bowdler on this subject, which unfortunately does... |
| Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Under the patronage of Lady Charleville
, she met many prominent people in the capital in 1808; on the way home to Ireland she visited, as well as Lady Stanley
and her Shrewsbury relations, the... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Tighe | MT
visited Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of Llangollen, and met Anna Seward
at their house. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 126 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Tighe | Before she left London, MT
met there her fellow Irish poet Tom Moore
. He subsequently visited her in Dublin and complimented her in verse. She exchanged poems with Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
... |
| Friends, Associates | Melesina Trench | In England and (especially) Ireland her friends (with whom she kept up largely by correspondence) included a number of other amateur writers: Mary Leadbeater
(from 1802), Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(the Ladies of... |
| 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... |
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