Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Ann, Lady Fanshawe | Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the ladies of Llangollen, meticulously transcribed the whole of ALF
's Memoirs (dating from May 1676) as a present for a friend. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin. 62 |
Literary responses | Jane Austen | Mary Russell Mitford
found JA
's heroine pert and worldly. Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press. 20 |
Textual Features | Natalie Clifford Barney | In L'amour défenduNCB
defends the proposition that only love is important, not the sex to whom it is directed. Barney, Natalie Clifford, and Karla Jay. A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney. Translator Anna Livia, New Victoria Publishers. 85 |
Textual Production | Eva Mary Bell | EMB
, as Mrs. G. H. Bell (John Travers), edited The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies
of Llangollen
and Caroline Hamilton. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Author summary | Eva Mary Bell | EMB
's fourteen books, published between 1910 and 1931, are mostly novels, and most of them appeared under the pseudonym of John Travers. She is remembered, if at all, for those set in British... |
Travel | Eva Mary Bell | EMB
must have visited Hamwood in County Meath, the Hamilton family historic home, where her sister Violet lived, where her collateral ancestors included a close friend of Sarah Ponsonby
, the younger of the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Mary Bell | EMB
's foreword and her comment on her material is brief. She makes skilful use of letters and diaries, not only those of this famous pair but of their friends and supporters Mrs Lucy Goddard |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Matilda Betham | As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(who later talked with high praise of her), Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons. 69, 70 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Matilda Betham | Here already MMB
evinces her interest in women's literary history: her topics include praise for writers including Ann Radcliffe
and the Ladies of Llangollen (Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
). One of the... |
Textual Features | Mary Matilda Betham | The Critical Review called the contents small poetical pictures, taken from nature and life, addresses to friends, moral reflections, and songs, with two or three elegies. Though this may sound humdrum, the review ranks MMB |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. Owens Blackburne | EOB
's preface also singles out what she claims to be an original account of the true Blackburne, E. Owens. Illustrious Irishwomen. Tinsley Brothers. I: viii |
Reception | E. Owens Blackburne | In the same preface EOB
promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth
, apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen. Between the publication of the two volumes, however, Wordsworth's son forbade... |
Travel | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | HMB
rented a cottage in the village of Llangollen in Denbighshire, to be near her friends Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin. 131 |
Friends, Associates | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | Frances Burney
preferred HMB
, as more kind and gentle, to her sister Frances Bowdler. Burney amusingly records a visit by herself, HMB and others, to Lady Miller
of Batheaston on 8 June 1780, when... |