Sarah Ponsonby

In the same preface EOB promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth , apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen. Between the publication of the two volumes, however, Wordsworth's son forbade...

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...

EMB 's fourteen books, published between 1910 and 1931, are mostly novels, and most of them appeared under the pseudonym of John Travers. She is remembered, if at all, for those set in British...

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...

The central activities of LEB and Sarah Ponsonby at Plas Newydd—study and self-improvement, gardening, landscaping (and, from the 1790s, even farming), exercising charity, and entertaining visitors—constituted a kind of life's work.

Mary Russell Mitford found JA 's heroine pert and worldly.Jane, Lady Davy (wife of the eminent scientist), who confessed that with an exception for Maria Edgeworth she preferred old favourites to new...

Again she had the lead review spot in the Critical, which loved the book and quoted at length. The British Critic also praised it, but some papers regretted that...

The Critical Review did this novel proud, first listing it, then praising it warmly for its superior moral tendency.Sarah, Lady Davy , told Sarah Ponsonby

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)

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...

By now the Plas Newydd grounds of Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby , the Ladies of Llangollen, were so famous that, by request, they sent plans to Queen Charlotte .

Sarah Ponsonby made a plan of the house which she shared with Eleanor Butler (Plas Newydd, Llangollen), which shows the improvements they had made so far.

Harriet Pigott , travelling in Europe, sent rare bulbous roots to LEB and Sarah Ponsonby for their garden.

MT visited Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby , the Ladies of Llangollen, and met Anna Seward at their house.

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. She may perhaps have known Anna Seward