Desire, Indeterminacy, and the Legacies of Criticism
by
Fiona Brideoake
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
The Ladies of Llangollen is the first book length critical study of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, whose 1778 elopement and five decades of “retirement” turned them into eighteenth century celebrities and pivotal figures in the historiography of female same-sex desire. Debates within...