Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph.
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Sarah Ponsonby
Standard Name: Ponsonby, Sarah
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Eleanor Butler | A report on Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
in the General Evening Post, headed Extraordinary Female Affection, called Butler tall and masculine and Ponsonby effeminate, fair and beautiful. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 81-2 |
| Cultural formation | Lady Eleanor Butler | Eleanor Butler
became Lady Eleanor when the Ormonde (or Ormond) title was restored to her family; Sarah Ponsonby
had the church bells rung to celebrate this official entry into the nobility. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 106 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Lady Eleanor Butler | An anonymous donation of two hundred pounds saved LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
from a renewed accumulation of debt. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 114 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Lady Eleanor Butler | Lady Louisa Clarges
left LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
£500 in her will. Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press. 291 |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | Mary Carryll
, servant and warm friend to LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
and their last close link with the old Irish past, Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 140 Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 140-1 |
| Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | Harriet Pigott
, travelling in Europe, sent rare bulbous roots to LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
for their garden. Pigott, Harriet. The Private Correspondence of a Woman of Fashion. H. Colburn and R. Bentley. 2: 155 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Lady Eleanor Butler | LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
were at length able to buy and own Plas Newydd in Llangollen, the house where they had lived for almost forty years. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 179-80 |
| death | Lady Eleanor Butler | LEB
died at Plas Newydd, Llangollen; her companion Sarah Ponsonby
survived her by two years, dying in early December 1831. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 186, 192 |
| Author summary | 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... |
| 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. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin. 206 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Her Souvenirs de Felicie L*** originated several fictional elements in the legend of Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of Llangollen. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin. 198 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Frances Jacson | The Critical Review did this novel proud, first listing it, then praising it warmly for its superior moral tendency. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 4th ser. 1 (1812): 668 Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 4th ser. 6 (1814): 688 |
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