Sarah Ponsonby

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.

LEB died at Plas Newydd, Llangollen; her companion Sarah Ponsonby survived her by two years, dying in early December 1831.

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...

Much has been written about the sexuality of LEB and her younger companion Sarah Ponsonby . They shared a bed, and according to Butler's journal records, much loving physical contact, often of a therapeutic nature...

In probably 1768 Eleanor Butler formed her friendship with the girl who was to become her life-partner, Sarah Ponsonby , who was sixteen years her junior and came from a somewhat lower rung of the...

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.

Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby eloped with the firm intention of spending their lives together: both wore men's clothes; Ponsonby escaped out of a window with a pistol and her little dog.

Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton , and Harriet Pigott therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby . They have been published in several selections: by Mrs G. H. [Eva Mary] Bell

Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby left Sarah's home together for the second time; they now had their maid Mary Carryll with them, and the grudging assent of their relations.

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 )...

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. They move in the same...

Her Souvenirs de Felicie L*** originated several fictional elements in the legend of Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby , the Ladies of Llangollen.

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. In Edinburgh in 1803...

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...

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