The Ladies of Llangollen: Desire, Indeterminacy, and the Legacies of Criticism
Author
Fiona Brideoake
Content
xxxvi + 331 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
Description
Examines the depictions in literature, the literary history, and the history of sexuality of Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, who eloped in 1778 and lived together in Wales for more than 50 years.
Main subject
Lesbian Studies
ISBN
9781611487619 (cloth); 9781611487626 (ebook)
Citation
Brideoake, Fiona. The Ladies of Llangollen: Desire, Indeterminacy, and the Legacies of Criticism. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. Sylvia. Accessed July 13, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL319.