Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 14 (1795): 241-55
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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promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth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... |
Reception | Eliza Haywood | 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... |
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... |
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... |
Occupation | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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. |
Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Again she had the lead review spot in the Critical, which loved the book and quoted at length. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 14 (1795): 241-55 |
Literary responses | Frances Jacson | The Critical Review did this novel proud, first listing it, then praising it warmly for its superior moral tendency. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 4th ser. 1 (1812): 668 Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 4th ser. 6 (1814): 688 |
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. 2d ser. 17 (1796):154 |
Literary responses | Harriet Lee | The Critical Review (which thought the first volume of Canterbury Tales resembled the work of Marmontel
, but happily without his profligate principles) was enthusiastic: We expect the second volume with impatience, as we have... |
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 |
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. 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. 112 |
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 |
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 | 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 |
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