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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Cultural formation | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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... |
Cultural formation | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 36 |
Occupation | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 47 |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Butler | Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton
, and Harriet Pigott
therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby
. Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, p. vii - viii; various pages. vii |
Residence | Lady Eleanor Butler | Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
settled in a cottage they called Plas Newydd, in Llangollen, with which their growing reputation linked them for ever as the Ladies of Llangollen. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 57 |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Butler | LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
wrote some of their voluminous correspondence jointly. Writing was one of their major pleasures; they selected paper with loving care, and kept an equally careful tally of replies received and of... |
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