description: Late 18th century Ireland. Two women from noble families – Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby – meet and form an intense romantic friendship. Against the will of their families – and overcoming the many obstacles placed before them – they leave Ireland and finally settle at Plas Newydd, North Wales.It is here they achieve fame and notoriety; it is here they become the Ladies of Llangollen.Chase of the Wild Goose is the forgotten lesbian novel of the interwar era – an amiable companion to Woolf’s time-travelling Orlando and joyful antidote to the misery of The Well of Loneliness. A historical fiction dedicated to the Ladies of Llangollen, first published by the Hogarth Press in 1936, Gordon’s Chase celebrates the search – and psychic need – for lesbian foremothers, and delights in finding them.
language: English
title: Llangollen Ladies
titlecomplete: Llangollen Ladies
genres: Fiction, Historical, Queer, LGBT, Lesbian, Womens, Romance, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 62
publisher: Dufour Editions