The Ladies Of Llangollen

Author : Fiona Brideoake
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611487626

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The Ladies of Llangollen by Fiona Brideoake Pdf

The Ladies of Llangollen is the first book length critical study of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, whose 1778 elopement and five decades of “retirement” turned them into eighteenth century celebrities and pivotal figures in the historiography of female same-sex desire. Debates within the history of sexuality have long foundered over questions of what constitutes “proof” of past sexual desires and practices, and the nature of Butler and Ponsonby’s intimacy has been deemed inimical to productive critical consideration. In this ground-breaking study Fiona Brideoake attends to the archive of their shared life—written, performed, and enacted in the vernacular of the everyday—to argue that they embodied an early iteration of female celebrity in which their queerness registered less as the mark of some specified non-normativity than as the effect of their very public, very visible resistance to sexual legibility. Throughout their lives and afterlives, Butler and Ponsonby have been figured as chaste romantic friends, prototypical lesbians, Bluestockings, Romantic domestic archetypes, and proleptically feminist modernists. The Ladies of Langollen demonstrates that this heterogeneous legacy discloses the queerness of their performatively instantiated identities.

Author : Elizabeth Mavor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0953956172

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The Ladies of Llangollen by Elizabeth Mavor Pdf

All Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby wanted was to live together and devote their lives to each other, so in 1778 they ran away from their aristocratic homes in Ireland to settle in Llangollen, Wales, to devote themselves to delicious seclusion and romantic friendship.

Author : John Hicklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Cottages
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000012796

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The "Ladies of Llangollen", as Sketched by Many Hands by John Hicklin Pdf

Author : Lady Eleanor Butler
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:39000004362922

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A Year with the Ladies of Llangollen by Lady Eleanor Butler Pdf

"In 1778, to the fury of their aristocratic families, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby eloped and fled to North Wales, to Llangollen. This charming book is taken from the journal that Eleanor Butler kept of their life together. During their lifetime, its contents aroused much speculation, but no one was permitted to see it and its true nature was protected from prying eyes. In fact, the journal is a delightful record of the ladies' devotion to one another and of the times in which they lived. Elizabeth Mavor's selection includes extracts from the journals themselves, and from the Ladies' Receipt and Account Books, together with a number of unpublished letters, all giving an extraordinarily vivid picture of village life in the late eighteenth century and of the remarkable friendship of the Ladies of Llangollen." -- Amazon.com viewed August 24, 2020.

Author : Elizabeth Mavor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000840666

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The Ladies of Llangollen by Elizabeth Mavor Pdf

Lady Eleanor Butler was 29 when she first met Sarah Ponsonby, a sensitive, retiring girl of 13. Ten years later, in 1778, the two ladies eloped. Amid scenes of scandal and havoc they settled in a cottage in Llangollen where their unorthodox relationship blossomed and their way of living became a legend. Lady Caroline Lamb and Josiah Wedgwood visited them, Wordsworth and Southey wrote poetry under their roof and other celebrities of the day, such as the Duke of Wellington, became their friends.

Author : John Hicklin (of Chester.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020067873

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The 'ladies of Llangollen' [lady Eleanor Butler and S. Ponsonby] as sketched by many hands by John Hicklin (of Chester.) Pdf

Author : Lady Eleanor Butler,Sarah Ponsonby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015025354054

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Life with the Ladies of Llangollen by Lady Eleanor Butler,Sarah Ponsonby Pdf

Author : John Prichard (D.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590809233

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An account of the ladies of Llangollen (lady E.C. Butler and S. Ponsonby). by John Prichard (D.D.) Pdf

Author : Martha Vicinus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226855639

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Intimate Friends by Martha Vicinus Pdf

Intimate Friends offers a fascinating look at the erotic friendships of educated English and American women over a 150-year period, culminating in the 1928 publication of The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall's scandalous novel of lesbian love. Martha Vicinus explores all-female communities, husband-wife couples, liaisons between younger and older women, female rakes, and mother-daughter affection. Women, she reveals, drew upon a rich religious vocabulary to describe elusive and complex erotic feelings. Vicinus also considers the nineteenth-century roots of such contemporary issues as homosexual self-hatred, female masculinity, and sadomasochistic desire. Drawing upon diaries, letters, and other archival sources, she brings to life a variety of well known and historically less recognized women, ranging from the predatory Ann Lister, who documented her sexual activities in code; to Mary Benson, the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury; to the coterie of wealthy Anglo-American lesbians living in Paris. In vivid and colorful prose, Intimate Friends offers a remarkable picture of women navigating the uncharted territory of same-sex desire.

Author : Elizabeth Mavor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781946022691

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A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor Pdf

Shortlisted for the 1973 Booker Prize, A Green Equinox is a beguilingly Rococo “study of love, considered in turn as companionship, sickness and mystic devotion . . . a book whose unusual infatuations are well worth lingering over, and puzzling out” (Russell Davies, The Observer). Hero Kinoull is an antiquarian bookseller whose sedate life in the picturesque English town of Beaudesert is turned upside down between the spring and autumn equinoxes of a single year. First her quiet but forbidden liaison with Hugh Shafto, the curator of the country’s finest collection of Rococo art, comes to an abrupt halt when she develops an adoration for his straight-talking, do-gooding wife Belle. But this relationship leads to other, even more unexpected feelings for Belle’s widowed mother-in-law, the majestic Kate Shafto, who spends her days tending her garden and sailing her handmade boats in the waters of the miniature archipelago she’s constructed in a disused gravel-pit. Published two years after Elizabeth Mavor’s most famous work, The Ladies of Llangollen—a biography of two eighteenth-century Irish gentlewomen who scandalized their families by eloping to Wales, where they lived together on their own terms—A Green Equinox is itself an intrepid exploration of gender, female sexuality, and passion: romantic, carnal, and cerebral.

Author : Helena Whitbread
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814794968

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I Know My Own Heart by Helena Whitbread Pdf

Upon publication, the first volume of Anne Lister's diaries, I Know My Own Heart, met with celebration, delight, and some skepticism. How could an upper class Englishwoman, in the first half of the nineteenth century, fulfill her emotional and sexual needs when her sexual orientation was toward other women? How did an aristocratic lesbian manage to balance sexual fulfillment with social acceptability? Helena Whitbread, the editor of these diaries, here allows us an inside look at the long-running love affair between Anne Lister and Marianna Lawton, an affair complicated by Anne's infatuation with Maria Barlow. Anne travels to Paris where she discovers a new love interest that conflicts with her developing social aspirations. For the first time, she begins to question the nature of her identity and the various roles female lovers may play in the life of a gentrywoman. Though unequipped with a lesbian vocabulary with which to describe her erotic life, her emotional conflicts are contemporary enough to speak to us all. This book will satisfy the curiosity of the many who became acquainted with Lister through I Know My Own Heart and are eager to learn more about her revealing life and what it suggests about the history of sexuality.

Author : Doris Grumbach
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497676695

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The Ladies by Doris Grumbach Pdf

A tender and imaginative retelling of the adventures of two of history’s most compelling women In 1778 Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby left County Kilkenny for Wales to live together as a married couple. Both well born, highly educated Irish women, the Ladies of Llangollen, as they came to be known, defied all eighteenth-century social convention and spent half a century together in a loving relationship. Removed from the intrusive gaze of the world, the fictional Eleanor and Sarah retreat to their shared home to study literature and language and enjoy their solitude. In an imagined account, Doris Grumbach brings this gripping chronicle to new audiences. With a keen sense of the rhythms and routines of longtime partnership, Grumbach breathes vivid life into this fascinating story of a passion both shocking and steadfast.

Author : Anne Lister
Publisher : Virago
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748125715

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The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1 by Anne Lister Pdf

Discover the extraordinary diaries of the real Anne Lister: the inspiration for Gentleman Jack and Emma Donoghue's new novel Learned By Heart 'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing' SARAH WATERS '[Anne Lister's] sense of self, and self-awareness, is what makes her modern to us . . . The diaries gave me courage' JEANETTE WINTERSON 'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history' EMMA DONOGHUE When this volume of Anne Lister's diaries was first published in 1988, it was hailed as a vital piece of lost lesbian history. The editor, Helena Whitbread, had spent years painstakingly researching and transcribing Lister's extensive journals, much of which were written in an elaborate code - what Lister called her 'crypthand', which allowed her to record her life in intimate, and at times, explicit, detail. Until then, Anne Lister's lesbianism had been supressed or hinted at; this was the first time her story had been told. Anne Lister defied the role of nineteenth century womanhood: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller and lesbian - a woman who lived her life on her own terms. These diaries include the years 1816-1824. The second volume, continuing Anne's story, THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS ANNE LISTER: NO PRIEST BUT LOVE, is now available.

Author : H. V. Morton
Publisher : Methuen Pub Limited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0413407403

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In Search of Wales by H. V. Morton Pdf

H. V. Morton's famous and much-loved travelogue of Wales. Singularly susceptible to Celtic romance and history, H. V. Morton goes in search of Wales, and finds equal delight in climbing Snowdon (inclement weather aside) and going down a coal mine. Bustling with intriguing local stories and characters, Morton's fascinating account reaches from the scenic grandeur of the north to the domestic beauty of the industrial south. In the Vale of Clwyd it rains "with grim enthusiasm," while at the Eisteddfod in Bangor, he is "slightly worried by the trousers of bard and druid, which are visible for a few inches below their gowns. Father Christmas has this same trouble with his trousers." Anecdotal, leisurely, full of character and event, insight, and opinion, this is travel writing of the very highest order.

Author : Mary Gordon
Publisher : John Jones Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89071184774

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The Llangollen Ladies by Mary Gordon Pdf

"Lady Butler and Miss Ponsonby were certainly an odd pair. Born to noble Irish families in the mid Eighteenth Century, they departed in 1778 - flew away like wild geese - to Wales where they settled together in a three-bay stone-built cottage in Llangollen which they re-named Plas Newydd ('the New Mansion'). Professedly living in retirement from the world, they moved in local society, received successions of distinguished visitors, espoused eccentricity, and made it their business to become a legend in their lifetime. They transformed their house, adding a Gothic library and much else. The porch and door are a riot of fragments, and the tiny entrance hall and the staircase are indescribably encrusted. So too is the Oak Room, with its Spanish leather, dated 1814 above the fireplace. They installed a great deal of stained glass. They had a mania for collecting carved oak. The grand house, Plas Newydd, is in a fine state of preservation, care of the County Council, and is well worth exploring, inside and out. It stands in memory of two of the most peculiar and interesting people ever to be part of the long and varied history of North Wales"--Amazon.com.