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
The Newcastle Eccentrics of the 19th century Allan Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings W & T Fordyce The Tyne Songster P. France & Co. France's Songs of the Bards of the Tyne - 1850 John Marshall Marshall's Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical 1827 John Ross The Songs of the Tyne by Ross William R Walker The Songs of the Tyne by Walker Thomas Marshall Marshall's A Collection of original local songs The Newcastle Eccentrics of the 19th century The Newcastle Eccentrics were a group of unrelated people who lived in and around the centre of Newcastle and its Quayside between the end of the