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Informationen zum Autor By Fiona Brideoake Klappentext This book explores the lives and afterlives of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, whose 1778 elopement rendered them pivotal figures in the history of female same-sex desire. Butler and Ponsonby's shared life--written, performed, and enacted in the everyday--embodied a form of queer celebrity constituted by their notably visible remoteness to erotic legibility. Their queerness further discloses the provisionality of the varied critical and political movements that have claimed them as ancestors in order to sustain their own subject positions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Casting Butler and Ponsonby: Before 'the Ladies of Llangollen' Chapter 1: "Sketched by many hands": Narrating Butler and Ponsonby Chapter 2: Engendering the Ladies: Romantic Friendship, Gender Difference and Queer Critical Practice Chapter 3: Becoming the Ladies of LlangollenChapter 4: "[K]eep yourself in your own persons, where you are": Butler and Ponsonby's Transformation of Plas newydd Chapter 5: 'The spirit of blue-stockingism': Were the Ladies of Llangollen 'Blue'?Chapter 6: "Love, above the reach of time": Butler and Ponsonby and the Performance of Romanticism Chapter 7: 'The Future Arrives Late': Butler and Ponsonby and their 'Spiritual Descendents,' 1928-37 Afterword Bibliography About the Author
