Sarah Ponsonby

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 ).

HL and Anna, her youngest sister, spent several weeks travelling in Wales: one of their ports of call was Llangollen.

The Critical Review (which thought the first volume of Canterbury Tales resembled the work of Marmontel , but happily without his profligate principles) was enthusiastic: We expect the second volume with impatience, as we have...

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.

She wrote that Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby , the Ladies of Llangollen, treated her with very kind and flattering attention when she visited them. She may perhaps have known Anna Seward

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...

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...

AL visited Plas Newydd at Llangollen in Wales, hoping to meet Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby .

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. Next...

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...

Again she had the lead review spot in the Critical, which loved the book and quoted at length. The British Critic also praised it, but some papers regretted that...

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

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.

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. For years they regularly exchanged gifts...

The Critical Review responded with high praise both of AS (The real lovers of poetry have often lamented that the Muse of Miss Seward should have been so silent)