Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old...
Friends, Associates
Anna Seward
Nine years later her meeting with the provincial literary hostess Anne, Lady Miller
, marked the beginning of a wide and deep acquaintance with the literary world beyond Lichfield.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
36-7, 71
She was on terms...
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, 1832, 2 vols.
2: 155
Occupation
Lady Eleanor Butler
In addition to their better-known activities, the women became antiquarians with a particular interest in women's writing. They copied early texts by women, like Ann Fanshawe
's still unpublished Memoirs. Henrietta Maria Bowdler
sent...
Publishing
Alethea Lewis
AL
's dedication to Sir Edward Littleton
, Member of Parliament for Stafford, praises him in this capacity and as a landlord. Her subscribers include many friends or relations, as well as writers like...
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, 1930, p. vii - viii; various pages.
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...
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...
Timeline
18 June 1815: Napoleon's power was decisively crushed at...
National or international item
18 June 1815
Napoleon
's power was decisively crushed at the battle of Waterloo, not far from Brussels.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
28: 379, 381
Texts
Pigott, Harriet. The Private Correspondence of a Woman of Fashion. H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832, 2 vols.