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Sarah Ponsonby
Standard Name: Ponsonby, Sarah
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | By now the Plas Newydd grounds of Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of Llangollen, were so famous that, by request, they sent plans to Queen Charlotte
. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 108n |
| 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... |
| Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | Sarah Ponsonby
made a plan of the house which she shared with Eleanor Butler
(Plas Newydd, Llangollen), which shows the improvements they had made so far. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 112 |
| 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. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 82 Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 81-2 |
| 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. 106 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Lady Eleanor Butler | An anonymous donation of two hundred pounds saved LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
from a renewed accumulation of debt. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 114 |
| 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 |
| 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, Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 140 Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 140-1 |
| 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
)... |
| 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 | 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. |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hamilton | While in Wales they visited Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(the ladies of Llangollen) and in the Lakes they stayed with Elizabeth Smith
and her family. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1: 152-4 Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 151 |
| Reception | Eliza Haywood | In 1795, by which time the novel was generally disapproved as coarse and sexually explicit, a correspondent of the Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
defended it in terms which acknowledged its indelicate language and its... |
| Literary responses | Frances Jacson | The Critical Review did this novel proud, first listing it, then praising it warmly for its superior moral tendency. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 4th ser. 1 (1812): 668 Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 4th ser. 6 (1814): 688 |
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