Eleanor Butler

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

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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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