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My Bridgerton Season 5 Predictions Based on History: Could the Ladies of Llangollen Inspire Francesca & Michaela?

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The Rt. Honble. Lady Eleanor Butler & Miss Ponsonby "The Ladies of Llangollen". [Facsimile signatures below.] Drawn on Stone by J.H. Lynch. Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the Queen. Entd. at Stationer's Hall. [n.d., c.1835.] Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 375 x 275mm (15 x 11"). Laid on album sheet with decorative border. Touching portraits of Sarah Ponsonby (1755 - 1831), daughter of Chambre Brabazon Ponsonby, cousin of the Earl of Bessborough, and Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler (1739 - 1829). They resolved to live together in complete isolation from society in a cottage at Plasnewydd in the vale of Llangollen, Denbighshire, north Wales. Their names were not known in the neighbourhood, and they were called 'the ladies of the vale.' They lived in complete seclusion for some fifty years, and neither left the cottage for a single night until their deaths. Their devotion to each other and their eccentric manne...

Bridgerton locations in prints!

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Bridgerton is set in the regency era; more precisely 1813. Check out these prints of the filming locations from one of our favourite Netflix shows. University of Greenwich    The Great Court Of Greenwich Hospital. Plate 80. Published Sepr 2d 1799, by T. Malton. Aquatint with etching. Printed area: 275 x 360mm (10¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed inside plate. A view with figures and dogs in the grounds of Greenwich Hospital, designed by Christopher Wren, and built between 1696 and 1712. The hospital closed in 1869. Between 1873 and 1998 it was the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. A plate to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour', 1792 - 1801. Thomas Malton (1748 - 1804) was an architectural watercolourist and teacher of Thomas Girtin and Joseph Mallord William Turner; also an aquatinter, notably after his own designs of London views. For un-coloured impression, see item ref: 10923. Thomas Malton (1748 - 1804) was an architectural wate...