Sarah Ponsonby

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.

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...

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...

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.

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

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.

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...

Among EOB 's literary friends, Elizabeth Hamilton was special. When Benger mentions Hamilton's delight in fostering unprotected talent, especially female talent, she is probably thinking of her own. She prints letters which are almost certainly...

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 )...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Under the patronage of Lady Charleville , she met many prominent people in the capital in 1808; on the way home to Ireland she visited, as well as Lady Stanley and her Shrewsbury relations, the...