Life
1745-1829 [Lady Eleanor]; b. Dublin; sister of 17th earl of Ormond; recluse
of Llangollen, with Sarah Ponsonby, and a maid-servant Mary Caryll, for
fifty years; semi-masculine clothing; ‘the most celebrated virgins
of Europe’. DIB ODNB
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References
Dictionary of National Biography refers to her as one of ‘the
ladies of the vale, 1779-1829’.
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