Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols.
1: 152-4
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1811. 151 |
| Literary responses | Harriet Lee | 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... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | The young Jane Austen
paid Emmeline the compliment of allusion in her comical History of England, 1791.Anna Seward
, on the other hand, condemned CS
for indelicacy because she had exposed her husband's... |
| Literary responses | Anna Seward | 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) Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2d ser. 17 (1796):154 |
| Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Again she had the lead review spot in the Critical, which loved the book and quoted at length. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2d ser. 14 (1795): 241-55 |
| Author summary | Eva Mary Bell | 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... |
| Publishing | Charlotte Nooth | The copy at the University of Alberta
has nine names added in manuscript to the end of a subscribers list which already includes Mary Matilda Betham
, Lady Eleanor Butler
, Harriet Bowdler
and her... |
| Reception | E. Owens Blackburne | 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... |
| Reception | Eliza Haywood | 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... |
| Residence | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | She lived for some years at Llangollen in Wales, recently the home of Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi. xix-xxi |
| Textual Features | Natalie Clifford Barney | In L'amour défenduNCB
defends the proposition that only love is important, not the sex to whom it is directed. Barney, Natalie Clifford, and Karla Jay. A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney. Translator Anna Livia, New Victoria Publishers, 1992. 85 |
| Textual Features | J. S. Anna Liddiard | The first poem, Kenilworth Castle. A Masque, was published separately at both Dublin and London in 1815 (after the battle of Waterloo put a new face on English patriotism), and is again dedicated to... |
| Textual Production | Ann Lady Fanshawe | Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the ladies of Llangollen, meticulously transcribed the whole of ALF
's Memoirs (dating from May 1676) as a present for a friend. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973. 62 |
| Textual Production | Eva Mary Bell | EMB
, as Mrs. G. H. Bell (John Travers), edited The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies
of Llangollen
and Caroline Hamilton. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Hannah More | Mary Ann Burges
's anonymous The Progress of Pilgrim Good-Intent, in Jacobinical Times was widely supposed (for instance by Hester Piozzi
and Lady Eleanor Butler
) to be by Hannah More
. Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols. 3: 186-7 and n |
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