Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Matilda Betham | Here already MMB
evinces her interest in women's literary history: her topics include praise for writers including Ann Radcliffe
and the Ladies of Llangollen (Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
). One of the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. Owens Blackburne | EOB
's preface also singles out what she claims to be an original account of the true Blackburne, E. Owens. Illustrious Irishwomen. Tinsley Brothers, 1877, 2 vols. I: viii |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Kazantzis | It includes poems reflecting her experience of winters spent at Key West, Florida, USA, and a tribute to the Ladies of Llangollen (Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
). |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Colette | 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. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973. 206 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Mary Bell | EMB
's foreword and her comment on her material is brief. She makes skilful use of letters and diaries, not only those of this famous pair but of their friends and supporters Mrs Lucy Goddard |
| Travel | Anne Lister | AL
visited Plas Newydd at Llangollen in Wales, hoping to meet Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
. Lister, Anne. I Know My Own Heart. Editor Whitbread, Helena, New York University Press, 1992. 194-7 |
| Travel | Jane Loudon | JL
did not entirely give up travelling as a widow. She took her daughter to the south of France in summer 1845, and to Birmingham, Derby, and Chatsworth in 1849. Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life, 1961. 95, 106-7 |
| Travel | Anna Seward | AS
first visited Llangollen, home of Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
. She stayed some weeks, though by the end of September she was writing to tell them about her journey home. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997. 96-7 |
| Travel | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | HMB
rented a cottage in the village of Llangollen in Denbighshire, to be near her friends Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973. 131 |
| Travel | Mary Brunton | On this occasion they went to the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, and Brighton (the consummation of deformity). Brunton, Mary. Emmeline. Manners and Miller; John Murray, 1819. 139 |
| Travel | Sarah Harriet Burney | A high point in this job was a tour in late autumn 1805, from her employers' country seat (Delamere Lodge, near Northwich, Cheshire) through Wales. A high point in the tour was... |
| Travel | Harriet Lee | HL
and Anna, her youngest sister, spent several weeks travelling in Wales: one of their ports of call was Llangollen. Editor April Alliston
is not certain whether or not they visited Lady Eleanor Butler |
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