Sarah Ponsonby

EOB 's preface also singles out what she claims to be an original account of the true history of the Ladies of Llangollen, Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby . While she...

It includes poems reflecting her experience of winters spent at Key West, Florida, USA, and a tribute to the Ladies of Llangollen (Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby ).

LEB and Sarah Ponsonby wrote some of their voluminous correspondence jointly. Writing was one of their major pleasures; they selected paper with loving care, and kept an equally careful tally of replies received and of...

She told her sister that noe body but your selfe could have obtain'd [this] from me, for whom my obligations has imposed me a law of never refusing any that lys in my power. You...

Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby , the ladies of Llangollen, meticulously transcribed the whole of ALF 's Memoirs (dating from May 1676) as a present for a friend.

The sonnets numbered a hundred; she had been long in the habit of reading them aloud, and friends like Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby urged her pressingly to publish them. The odes, done...

HMB 's letters to Sarah Ponsonby reveal the closeness of their friendship. She sent information, opinion, and verse, some of it probably written by herself. Among books she discussed were Ann Radcliffe 's The Mysteries...

MT wrote her final poem, On receiving a branch of mezereon. Which flowered at Woodstock. December 1809.

EMB , as Mrs. G. H. Bell (John Travers), edited The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton.

Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton , and Harriet Pigott therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby . They have been published in several selections: by Mrs G. H. [Eva Mary] Bell

The Critical Review called the contents small poetical pictures, taken from nature and life, addresses to friends, moral reflections, and songs, with two or three elegies. Though this may sound humdrum, the review ranks MMB

In L'amour défenduNCB defends the proposition that only love is important, not the sex to whom it is directed. She argues that every person possesses both masculine and feminine principles: We should not...

The first poem, Kenilworth Castle. A Masque, was published separately at both Dublin and London in 1815 (after the battle of Waterloo put a new face on English patriotism), and is again dedicated to...

Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby settled in a cottage they called Plas Newydd, in Llangollen, with which their growing reputation linked them for ever as the Ladies of Llangollen.

She lived for some years at Llangollen in Wales, recently the home of Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby .