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
Eleanor Butler Alexander-Roosevelt Eleanor Butler Alexander-Roosevelt Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt (December 26, 1888–May 29, 1960) was an American philanthropist. She was the wife of General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and the daughter-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. Eleanor Butler Alexander was born on December 26, 1888, the only daughter of Henry Addison Alexander, a prominent New York lawyer, and Grace Green. She was a great-granddaughter of the late Theron Butler. Throughout her life Eleanor not only supported her husband's career but also proved a highly organized, socially conscious person in her own right. From July 1917 to December 1918,