Life With The Ladies Of Llangollen
Lady Eleanor Butler; Sarah Ponsonby; Elizabeth Mavor
The ‘Ladies of Llangollen’, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, were two upper-class Irish women whose cohabitation shocked and intrigued contemporary society.
Escaping pressure to make conventional marriages, they set up home together in 1780 in a splendid Gothic mansion in Llangollen, North Wales, where distinguished visitors would stopover on the route to Dublin. These included Shelley, Byron, Wellington and Wordsworth, who wrote a sonnet about them. As the two ladies dressed in men’s clothes, they were assumed to be lesbians, though they professed outrage at this suggestion.
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| ISBN | 9780670800384 |
| Genre | Autobiography/Biography |
| Publication Date | 02-Nov-84 |
| Publisher | Viking |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 248 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | Country Life; Great Britain; Lesbians; Llangollen (Clwyd); Llangollen (Wales) |
| BookID | 7398 |
