Episode 7: The Ladies of Llangollen

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These Old Queers

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Megan and Thomas are two middle-aged, self-identified queer people. In each episode, they delve into historical events and people who are part of queer history, as well as take a look at aging in the LGBTQIA+ community

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Episode 7: The Ladies of Llangollen

These Old Queers

1 hour 49 minutes 44 seconds

1 year ago

Episode 7: The Ladies of Llangollen

Megan shares the story of Eleanor Butler (1739–1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831) - known as the Ladies of Llangollen: an intrepid Irish lesbian couple who eloped to Wales to live their truth...and to invent lesbogothcottagecore. Because #lesbiansinventedeverything

Sources:

To the Lady E.B. and the Hon. Miss P, link: http://l-adam-mekler.com/ww_ladies.pdf

Poem of the Week: Anna Seward’s ‘Llangollen Vale’, Link:

https://pastplace.exeter.ac.uk/2014/03/poem-of-the-week-anna-sewards-llangollen-vale/

The Strange Couple who Never Left Home | The Ladies of Llangollen, Fogotten Lives, link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24AACkDqNrs

February 2016, the Ladies of Llangollen, episode 7 of series 3 of Mysteries at the Castle, Travel Channel.

RTÉ radio documentary An Extraordinary Affair, April 2011