Lady Eleanor Butler was an Irish recluse and lesbian. She was born in 1738 and died in 1821. In 1777 she met Sarah Ponsby in Kilkenny, fell in love and the two moved to Plas Newydd in Wales where they lived together in a farmhouse, never sleeping apart or out of it until their deaths fifty years later. Research Lady Eleanor Butler
 
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