glbtq >> literature >> Butler, Lady Eleanor, and Sarah Ponsonby: "Butler, Lady Eleanor, (1739-1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755-1831)
An enduring emblem of female romantic friendship, Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby eloped to Wales where they lived together for over fifty years and entertained several important writers.
Best known as the Ladies of Llangollen, after the Welsh village where they lived in "delicious Retirement," Butler and Ponsonby were daughters of the Anglo-Irish Ascendency who eloped together in 1778. Ponsonby, sixteen years Butler's junior, lost both parents in early childhood and her stepmother when she was thirteen. Given into the care of her father's cousin Lady Betty Fownes, she was sent to Miss Parke's boarding school in Kilkenny."
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