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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Textual Production | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | 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... |
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... |
Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | Harriet Pigott
, travelling in Europe, sent rare bulbous roots to LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
for their garden. Pigott, Harriet. The Private Correspondence of a Woman of Fashion. H. Colburn and R. Bentley. 2: 155 |
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 |
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. 186, 192 |
Author summary | Lady Eleanor Butler | One of the two renowned Ladies of Llangollen, LEB
produced life-writing (diaries, letters, and some poems) during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, which structured, recorded, and celebrated their shared way of life... |
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... |
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... |
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. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 36 |
Occupation | Lady Eleanor Butler | The central activities of LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
at Plas Newydd—study and self-improvement, gardening, landscaping (and, from the 1790s, even farming), exercising charity, and entertaining visitors—constituted a kind of life's work. |
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. 47 |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Butler | Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton
, and Harriet Pigott
therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby
. 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, p. vii - viii; various pages. vii |
Residence | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 57 |
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