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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | 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... |
Textual Production | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | HMB
's letters to Sarah Ponsonby
reveal the closeness of their friendship. She sent information, opinion, and verse, some of it probably written by herself. Among books she discussed were Ann Radcliffe
's The Mysteries... |
Travel | Mary Brunton | On this occasion they went to the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, and Brighton (the consummation of deformity). Brunton, Mary. Emmeline. Manners and Miller; John Murray. 139 |
Travel | Sarah Harriet Burney | A high point in this job was a tour in late autumn 1805, from her employers' country seat (Delamere Lodge, near Northwich, Cheshire) through Wales. A high point in the tour was... |
Cultural formation | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 106 |
Wealth and Poverty | Lady Eleanor Butler | An anonymous donation of two hundred pounds saved LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
from a renewed accumulation of debt. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 114 |
Wealth and Poverty | Lady Eleanor Butler | Lady Louisa Clarges
left LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
£500 in her will. Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press. 291 |
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, Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 140 Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 140-1 |
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. 2: 155 |
Wealth and Poverty | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 179-80 |
death | Lady Eleanor Butler | LEB
died at Plas Newydd, Llangollen; her companion Sarah Ponsonby
survived her by two years, dying in early December 1831. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 186, 192 |
Author summary | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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... |
Cultural formation | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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... |
Cultural formation | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph. 36 |
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