Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph.
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Sarah Ponsonby
Standard Name: Ponsonby, Sarah
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Lady Eleanor Butler | An anonymous donation of two hundred pounds saved LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
from a renewed accumulation of debt. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Lady Eleanor Butler | Lady Louisa Clarges
left LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
£500 in her will. Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press. 291 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Lady Eleanor Butler | LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
were at length able to buy and own Plas Newydd in Llangollen, the house where they had lived for almost forty years. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 179-80 |
| 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. 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 | 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. 194-7 |
| Travel | Eva Mary Bell | EMB
must have visited Hamwood in County Meath, the Hamilton family historic home, where her sister Violet lived, where her collateral ancestors included a close friend of Sarah Ponsonby
, the younger of the... |
| 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. 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. 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. 131 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. 206 |
| 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 | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Her Souvenirs de Felicie L*** originated several fictional elements in the legend of Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of Llangollen. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin. 198 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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
.
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.
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.