Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
left Sarah's home together for the second time; they now had their maid Mary Carryll
with them, and the grudging assent of their relations.
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Friends, Associates
Lady Eleanor Butler
Mary Carryll
, servant and warm friend to LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
and their last close link with the old Irish past,
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died after some months' illness.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph.
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Leisure and Society
Lady Eleanor Butler
Their self-consciously utopian existence was probably modelled in part on Sarah Scott
's Millenium Hall. While the Ladies were a byword for gentility, their Irish servant Mary Carryll
was known as Molly the Bruiser...
