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- [2009]. (Creation)
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Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, better-known as the 'Ladies of Llangollen', were both members of Irish aristocratic families. Having quickly established a relationship following their meeting in 1768, the women escaped the scandalised animosity of their home circle by setting up home at Plasnewydd, a Gothic-style house situated near Llangollen, Denbighshire. For the next fifty years, they lived a secluded and often penurious existence, while nevertheless receiving such notable visitors as the landowner, traveller and writer Anne Lister and the poets Robert Southey, William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley. Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby are both buried in the grounds of St Collen's Church, Llangollen, while Plasnewydd is now a museum dedicated to their lives.
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The National Library of Ireland; Dublin; Purchase; January 2009; 004610042.
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Photocopies of the journal for 1819 of Lady Eleanor Butler, one of the Ladies of Llangollen, and of her daybook, 1806, containing jottings of conversations and anecdotes, 1805-6.
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Originals held in the National Library of Ireland, Dublin.
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Preferred citation: NLW Facs 1048.
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- English