Liddiard, J. S. Anna. Kenilworth and Farley Castle: with Other Poems. Hibernia–Press Office, 1813.
prelims
Lady Eleanor Butler
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Standard Name: Butler, Lady Eleanor
Birth Name: Eleanor Butler
Styled: 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. Today the writing of her partner, Sarah Ponsonby
, is also receiving attention.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Hester Lynch Piozzi | HLP
's first marriage made heterosexuality a burden to her, with constant pregnancy, bearing children who died early and painfully, and tending to her husband's venereal diseases. She recorded what would later be called homophobic... |
| Dedications | J. S. Anna Liddiard | JSAL
published at DublinKenilworth and Farley Castle: with other Poems, dedicated to two famous Irishwomen, Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of Llangollen. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Among EOB
's literary friends, Elizabeth Hamilton
was special. When Benger mentions Hamilton's delight in fostering unprotected talent, especially female talent, she is probably thinking of her own. She prints letters which are almost certainly... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Lister | The Leeds Mercury then published a spoof marriage announcement between Ann Walker and Captain Tom Lister of Shibden Hall.AL
thought this merely funny (unlike Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | Elizabeth Mavor
, biographer of Butler
and Ponsonby
, classes as romantic attachments HMB
's friendships with both of them, with Smith
, and with Margaret Davies
. Bowdler was, says Mavor, inclined to adopt... |
| 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
)... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Tighe | Before she left London, MT
met there her fellow Irish poet Tom Moore
. He subsequently visited her in Dublin and complimented her in verse. She exchanged poems with Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Smith | ES
and her mother visited the Ladies of Llangollen (Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
) en route to Ireland, and Elizabeth wrote a long letter to Bowdler on this subject, which unfortunately does... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Matilda Betham | As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(who later talked with high praise of her), Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons, 1905. 69, 70 |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Seward | AS
became a close friend of Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of Llangollen, whom she called the Rosalind and Celia of real life. qtd. in Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997. 96-7 |
| Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Under the patronage of Lady Charleville
, she met many prominent people in the capital in 1808; on the way home to Ireland she visited, as well as Lady Stanley
and her Shrewsbury relations, the... |
| Friends, Associates | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | Frances Burney
preferred HMB
, as more kind and gentle, to her sister Frances Bowdler. Burney amusingly records a visit by herself, HMB and others, to Lady Miller
of Batheaston on 8 June 1780, when... |
| 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, 1818, 2 vols. 1: 152-4 Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1811. 151 |
| Friends, Associates | Melesina Trench | In England and (especially) Ireland her friends (with whom she kept up largely by correspondence) included a number of other amateur writers: Mary Leadbeater
(from 1802), Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(the Ladies of... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Tighe | MT
visited Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of Llangollen, and met Anna Seward
at their house. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971. 126 |
Timeline
1782: George Romney painted a picture to illustrate...
Women writers item
1782
George Romney
painted a picture to illustrate (after the fact) William Hayley
'a Triumphs of Temper, 1781: Serena, reading Burney
's Evelina. The model was Honora Sneyd
.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
607, 609
1 April 1789: Hester Lynch Piozzi (a propos reports about...
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1 April 1789
Hester Lynch Piozzi
(a propos reports about Marie Antoinette
) indignantly recorded what she presents as if it was her first encounter with lesbianism.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973.
78
March 1908: Mary Louisa Gordon, who had qualified as...
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March 1908
Mary Louisa Gordon
, who had qualified as both a physician and a midwife and had practised medicine in London since 1900, was appointed the first female prison inspector in Britain.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Texts
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.
Butler, Lady Eleanor, and Sarah Ponsonby. Life with the Ladies of Llangollen. Editor Mavor, Elizabeth, Viking, 1984.
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton. Editor Bell, Eva Mary, Macmillan, 1930.