The Ladies of Llangollen

A Study in Romantic Friendship

Author: Elizabeth Mavor
ISBN: 014003708X

After a couple of years, their life attracted the interest of the outside world. Their house became a haven for visitors, mostly writers such as Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, but also the military leader the Duke of Wellington and the industrialist Josiah Wedgwood; aristocratic novelist Caroline Lamb, who was born a Ponsonby, came to visit too. Even travellers from continental Europe had heard of the couple and came to visit them, for instance Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, the German nobleman and landscape designer, who wrote admiringly about them. ..."--Wikiped., June 2014.

Publisher: Penguin Books
Publish Date: 1973-01-01

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