Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
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Sarah Ponsonby
Standard Name: Ponsonby, Sarah
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Lady Eleanor Butler | Much has been written about the sexuality of LEB
and her younger companion Sarah Ponsonby
. They shared a bed, and according to Butler's journal records, much loving physical contact, often of a therapeutic nature... |
| Cultural formation | Lady Eleanor Butler | Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
eloped with the firm intention of spending their lives together: both wore men's clothes; Ponsonby escaped out of a window with a pistol and her little dog. |
| Cultural formation | Hester Lynch Piozzi | HLP
's first marriage made heterosexuality a burden to her, with constant pregnancy, bearing children who died early and painfully, and tending to her husband's venereal diseases. She recorded what would later be called homophobic... |
| Cultural formation | Lady Eleanor Butler | Eleanor Butler
became Lady Eleanor when the Ormonde (or Ormond) title was restored to her family; Sarah Ponsonby
had the church bells rung to celebrate this official entry into the nobility. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971. 106 |
| death | Lady Eleanor Butler | LEB
died at Plas Newydd, Llangollen; her companion Sarah Ponsonby
survived her by two years, dying in early December 1831. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971. 186, 192 |
| Dedications | J. S. Anna Liddiard | JSAL
published at DublinKenilworth and Farley Castle: with other Poems, dedicated to two famous Irishwomen, Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of Llangollen. Liddiard, J. S. Anna. Kenilworth and Farley Castle: with Other Poems. Hibernia–Press Office, 1813. prelims |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Lister | The Leeds Mercury then published a spoof marriage announcement between Ann Walker and Captain Tom Lister of Shibden Hall.AL
thought this merely funny (unlike Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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 | 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. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971. 47 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Among EOB
's literary friends, Elizabeth Hamilton
was special. When Benger mentions Hamilton's delight in fostering unprotected talent, especially female talent, she is probably thinking of her own. She prints letters which are almost certainly... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Eleanor Butler | A report on Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
in the General Evening Post, headed Extraordinary Female Affection, called Butler tall and masculine and Ponsonby effeminate, fair and beautiful. qtd. in Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971. 82 Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971. 81-2 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | Lloyd was the daughter of the squire of Rhagatt in Merionethshire, Wales; a maiden aunt in the family had been a friend of the Ladies of Llangollen (Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
)... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | Elizabeth Mavor
, biographer of Butler
and Ponsonby
, classes as romantic attachments HMB
's friendships with both of them, with Smith
, and with Margaret Davies
. Bowdler was, says Mavor, inclined to adopt... |
| Fictionalization | Lady Eleanor Butler | Penruddock
's version of their story sets their elopement in the middle of a ball, and gives them two exciting years in London; Colette and de Beauvoir take a triumphalist view of their assumed lesbianism... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Seward | AS
became a close friend of Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of Llangollen, whom she called the Rosalind and Celia of real life. qtd. in Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997. 96-7 |
Timeline
1782: George Romney painted a picture to illustrate...
Women writers item
1782
George Romney
painted a picture to illustrate (after the fact) William Hayley
'a Triumphs of Temper, 1781: Serena, reading Burney
's Evelina. The model was Honora Sneyd
.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
607, 609
1 April 1789: Hester Lynch Piozzi (a propos reports about...
Building item
1 April 1789
Hester Lynch Piozzi
(a propos reports about Marie Antoinette
) indignantly recorded what she presents as if it was her first encounter with lesbianism.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973.
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March 1908: Mary Louisa Gordon, who had qualified as...
Building item
March 1908
Mary Louisa Gordon
, who had qualified as both a physician and a midwife and had practised medicine in London since 1900, was appointed the first female prison inspector in Britain.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Texts
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.
Butler, Lady Eleanor, and Sarah Ponsonby. Life with the Ladies of Llangollen. Editor Mavor, Elizabeth, Viking, 1984.
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton. Editor Bell, Eva Mary, Macmillan, 1930.