Life
1745-1829 [Lady Eleanor]; b. Dublin; sister of 17th earl of Ormond; recluse of Llangollen, with Sarah Ponsonby, and a maid-servant Mary Caryll, for
fifty years; semi-masculine clothing; ‘the most celebrated virgins of Europe’. DIB ODNB
Criticism
Ellen Crowell, ‘Female Intimacies, Ascendancy Exiles, and the Anglo-Irish Novel’, in Éire-Ireland, 39:2 & 3 (Fall/Winter 2004, pp.202-27.
| “My dear Mrs. Goddard, I am in the utmost distress. My dear Sally has leapt out of the window and has gone off. We hear that Miss Butler of the Castle is with her, and Mr. Butler has been here to enquire for his daughter.” (Quoted in Crowell, op. cit. (2004), epigraph. |
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References
Dictionary of National Biography refers to her as one of ‘the ladies of the vale, 1779-1829’.
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