AS
first visited Llangollen, home of Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
. She stayed some weeks, though by the end of September she was writing to tell them about her journey home.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
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Anne Lister
AL
visited Plas Newydd at Llangollen in Wales, hoping to meet Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
.
Lister, Anne. I Know My Own Heart. Editor Whitbread, Helena, New York University Press, 1992.
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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, 1819.
139
Leaving London without intention of returning, on 25 July 1815, she demanded rhetorically:...
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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...
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Jane Loudon
JL
did not entirely give up travelling as a widow. She took her daughter to the south of France in summer 1845, and to Birmingham, Derby, and Chatsworth in 1849.
Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life, 1961.
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Eva Mary Bell
EMB
must have visited Hamwood in County Meath, the Hamilton family historic home, where her sister Violet lived, where her collateral ancestors included a close friend of Sarah Ponsonby
, the younger of the...
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, 1971.