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Boston marriage / Wellesley marriage (paid)

Dave Wilton

• 5 min read
Two women in 19th-century men’s attire sitting in a library
Lithograph of “the Ladies of Llangollen,” Eleanor Butler (1739–1829), right, and Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831), left. Butler and Ponsonby, both born of upper-class, Anglo-Irish families, lived openly as a couple in North Wales.