qtd. in
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
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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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Tighe | 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)
... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Smith | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Seward | 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. qtd. in Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997. 96-7 |
Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hamilton | 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. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols. 1: 152-4 Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1811. 151 |
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, 1905. 69, 70 |
Friends, Associates | Melesina Trench | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | Mary Carryll
, servant and warm friend to LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
and their last close link with the old Irish past, qtd. in Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971. 140 Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971. 140-1 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Tighe | MT
visited Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of Llangollen, and met Anna Seward
at their house. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971. 126 |
Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | Harriet Pigott
, travelling in Europe, sent rare bulbous roots to LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
for their garden. Pigott, Harriet. The Private Correspondence of a Woman of Fashion. H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832, 2 vols. 2: 155 |
Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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
. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971. 108n |
Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971. 112 |
Literary responses | Jane Austen | Mary Russell Mitford
found JA
's heroine pert and worldly. qtd. in Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997. 20 |
Literary responses | Anna Seward | 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) Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2d ser. 17 (1796):154 |
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