The daughter of Walter Butler of Garryricken, and elder of the two Ladies of Llangollen; she lived in picturesque and much-admired retirement with her companion Sarah Ponsonby (1755-1831).

REFERENCES TO Lady Charlotte Eleanor Butler:

William Godwin to James Marshal, 2 August 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

William Godwin to James Marshal, 14 August 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Lord Byron to Elizabeth Bridget Pigot, 5 July 1807 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Sydney Owenson to Lady Margaret Stanley, 28 July 1808 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Sydney Owenson to Alicia Le Fanu, 12 August 1808 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

John Gibson Lockhart to an unnamed correspondent, 24 August 1825 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 3 November 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)