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...
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Ann Lady Fanshawe
The recipient was Sarah Tighe
, who later became the mother-in-law of the poet Mary Tighe
.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973.
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.
They had forfeited the maintenance they would have expected from their families by their elopement, but still expected inheritances which mostly in the event failed to materialise. The death of Eleanor's father without a legacy...
