A Year with the Ladies of Llangollen
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (802 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140069763 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Ladies of Llangollen Mrs Kim E Revell An insight in to two very individual ladies, that choose a life for themselves against the wishes of their family, they lived a long life with many amazing friends. This book is a diary of their very ordinary days in a life lived on their own terms. Insightful.
Publisged in hardback under the title, Life with the Ladies of Llangollen.. 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. In fact, the journal is a delightful record of the ladies' devotion to one another and of the times in which they lived. 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. 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extracts from the journals themselves, and from the Ladies' Receipt and Account Books, together with a number of unpublished letters, all giving an extraordinarily vivid picture of village life in the late eighteenth century and of the remarkable friendship of