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The Ladies
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In 1778 Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby left County Kilkenny for Wales to live together as a married couple. Both well born, highly educated Irish women, the Ladies of Llangollen, as they came to be known, defied all eighteenth-century social convention and spent half a century together in a loving relationship.
Removed from the intrusive gaze of the world, the fictional Eleanor and Sarah retreat to their shared home to study literature and language and enjoy their solitude. In an imagined account, Doris Grumbach brings this gripping chronicle to new audiences. With a keen sense of the rhythms and routines of longtime partnership, Grumbach breathes vivid life into this fascinating story of a passion both shocking and steadfast.
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“Finished it in 3 days. Very heart-warming 🥰 The ending especially made me tear up:
"Eleanor's arms were around her as she left her life behind. Her ears closed upon the sound of Eleanor's voice assuring her that once again they would manage their escape together, somehow: nothing, no one, would prevent them." ❤️🩹”
“a heartwarming story! the (slightly fictionalized) lives of these sapphic Irish women is slow paced and dense, but its filled with beautiful moments and so much history!”
“Started off strong and compelling, but wandered somewhere in the middle. I was startled at one point to realize that 30 years had passed in the book. It might prove memorable in time.”
About Doris Grumbach
Doris Grumbach, author of many novels and memoirs including
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, and
, has been literary editor of the
, a nonfiction columnist for the
, a book reviewer for National Public Radio, and a bookseller in Washington, DC, and Maine. She lives in Philadelphia.
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