Sarah Ponsonby

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...

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)

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...

The central activities of LEB and Sarah Ponsonby at Plas Newydd—study and self-improvement, gardening, landscaping (and, from the 1790s, even farming), exercising charity, and entertaining visitors—constituted a kind of life's work.

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...

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...

In the same preface EOB promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth , apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen.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...

In 1795, by which time the novel was generally disapproved as coarse and sexually explicit, a correspondent of the Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby defended it in terms which acknowledged its indelicate language and its...

She lived for some years at Llangollen in Wales, recently the home of Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby .

Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby settled in a cottage they called Plas Newydd, in Llangollen, with which their growing reputation linked them for ever as the Ladies of Llangollen.

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

The first poem, Kenilworth Castle. A Masque, was published separately at both Dublin and London in 1815 (after the battle of Waterloo put a new face on English patriotism), and is again dedicated to...

In L'amour défenduNCB defends the proposition that only love is important, not the sex to whom it is directed. She argues that every person possesses both masculine and feminine principles: We should not...

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.