Lesbian Fanny gladdens my heart:—You know not how I love her." Wollstonecraft's first novel "", in part, addressed her relationship with Fanny Blood. Perhaps the most famous of these romantic friendships was between Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, nicknamed the Ladies of Llangollen. Butler and Ponsonby eloped in 1778, to the relief of Ponsonby's family (concerned about their reputation had she run away with a man) to live together in Wales for 51 years and be thought of as eccentrics. Their story was considered "the epitome of virtuous romantic friendship" and inspired poetry by Anna Seward and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Diarist
Ponsonby, New Zealand Vandeleur came to New Zealand but they are probably the source for the street names and ultimately the suburb's name. 1841 Jane Griffin (Lady Franklin), wife of Sir John Franklin the Governor of Tasmania, visits Auckland. During her time in Auckland she walks up a track in the Ponsonby area subsequently named for her as Franklin Road. mid1840s Governor Hobson's secretary James Stuart Freeman lives in the area subsequently known as "Freemans Bay". 1848 The area now known as Ponsonby is included in the "Hundred of Auckland". 1851 The "Suburban West Ward" is created which includes what is now Ponsonby.