Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, the British couple known as the Ladies of Llangollen. They set up home in 1780 in Plas Newydd, Wales, and over their fifty years together hosted some of the most celebrated literary figures of the day,...
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Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, the British couple known as the Ladies of Llangollen. They set up home in 1780 in Plas Newydd, Wales, and over their fifty years together hosted some of the most celebrated literary figures of the day, including Robert Southey, Wordsworth, Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott. · To Mr. Bearbon[?] : 1 autograph letter third person on behalf of Butler and Ponsonby : 23 May 1823 : (MISC 2014) : begins, "Lady Eleanor Butler Miss Ponsonby shall be very particularly obliged by any attention that Mr. Bearbon[?] will have the goodness to pay -- ". Tipped in to the William Upcott album of collected letters of eminent women, shelved under "Upcott" with bound manuscript volumes.
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