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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Eleanor Butler
Both Sir William
and Lady Betty Fownes
died within a few weeks of their departure.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
48-9
The two women stayed together for the rest of their lives. They shared a bed; they named one of...
