Sarah Ponsonby

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

Before she left London, MT met there her fellow Irish poet Tom Moore . He subsequently visited her in Dublin and complimented her in verse. She exchanged poems with Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre) ...

In England and (especially) Ireland her friends (with whom she kept up largely by correspondence) included a number of other amateur writers: Mary Leadbeater (from 1802), Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby (the Ladies of...

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...

As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby (who later talked with high praise of her),MMB acquired a wide acquaintance in London. She became a close friend...

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. In Edinburgh in 1803...

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.

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...

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...

ES and her mother visited the Ladies of Llangollen (Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby ) en route to Ireland, and Elizabeth wrote a long letter to Bowdler on this subject, which unfortunately does...

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.

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

Mary Russell Mitford found JA 's heroine pert and worldly.Jane, Lady Davy (wife of the eminent scientist), who confessed that with an exception for Maria Edgeworth she preferred old favourites to new...

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...