Name/TitleThe Ladies
MakerGrumbach, Doris
Maker RoleAuthor
About this objectHardback novel titled 'The Ladies' by Doris Grumbach. The blurb begins: "In her long-awaited new novel, Doris Grumbach introduces us to two of history's most interesting characters, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, well-born ladies who defied all conventions of their eighteenth-century Irish homeland and eloped as a married couple." It continues: "The Ladies left Ireland for Wales, where eventually they found their haven: a country cottage in the small hamlet of Llangollen called 'Plas Newydd' - the New Place - where, removed from they eyes of the world, they could live out their quiet lives."
Partly digitised (10 pages, incl. covers, blurb, front pages and apologia)
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 220 x W: 140 x D: 22 mm
Date Made1985
Period1980s
Place MadeEngland, London
Place NotesHamish Hamilton Ltd, Garden House, 57-59 Long Acre, London WC2E 9JZ
PublisherHamish Hamilton Ltd
Publication Date1985
Publication PlaceEngland, London
PublisherE.P. Dutton Inc
Publication Date1984/5
Publication PlaceUSA, New York
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Grumbach:
Doris M. Grumbach (née Isaac; July 12, 1918 – November 4, 2022) was an American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist. She taught at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and American University in Washington, D.C., and was literary editor of The New Republic for several years. She published many novels highlighting and focusing on gay and lesbian characters. For two decades, she and her partner, Sybil Pike, operated a bookstore, Wayward Books, in Sargentville, Maine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_of_Llangollen:
The "Ladies of Llangollen", Eleanor Butler (1739–1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831), were two upper-class Irish women who lived together as a couple. Their relationship scandalised and fascinated their contemporaries. The pair moved to a Gothic house in Llangollen, North Wales, in 1780 after leaving Ireland to escape the social pressures of conventional marriages. Over the years, numerous distinguished visitors called upon them. Guests included Shelley, Byron, Wellington and Wordsworth, the latter of whom wrote a sonnet about them.
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's writing & literature
Subject and Association KeywordsLGBTQ+
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBooklet
ISBN/ISSN0-241-11453-5
Object numberGWL-2015-47-9
Spine LabelThe Ladies ~ DORIS GRUMBACK ~ hh
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved