Sarah Ponsonby

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.

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...

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 .

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.

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.

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.

An anonymous donation of two hundred pounds saved LEB and Sarah Ponsonby from a renewed accumulation of debt.

Lady Louisa Clarges left LEB and Sarah Ponsonby £500 in her will.

Mary Carryll , servant and warm friend to LEB and Sarah Ponsonby and their last close link with the old Irish past, died after some months' illness.

Harriet Pigott , travelling in Europe, sent rare bulbous roots to LEB and Sarah Ponsonby for their garden.

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.

LEB died at Plas Newydd, Llangollen; her companion Sarah Ponsonby survived her by two years, dying in early December 1831.

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...

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...

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...