Sarah Ponsonby

Among EOB 's literary friends, Elizabeth Hamilton was special. When Benger mentions Hamilton's delight in fostering unprotected talent, especially female talent, she is probably thinking of her own. She prints letters which are almost certainly...

EMB , as Mrs. G. H. Bell (John Travers), edited The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton.

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...

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...

EMB 's foreword and her comment on her material is brief. She makes skilful use of letters and diaries, not only those of this famous pair but of their friends and supporters Mrs Lucy Goddard

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...

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...

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.