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Chase Of The Wild Goose

by Mary Gordon - £12.00  Lurid Editions (2023)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781739744106 | ISBN 10: 1739744101

The story of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, known as the Ladies of Llangollen
 
“Gordon’s spirited, romantic account of the lives of the Ladies of Llangollen is a fascinating piece of queer literary history in its own right. A claiming of kinship, across time, with two remarkable women, it’s a deeply feminist work, a celebration of courage and nonconformity. It’s also endearingly odd! Part biography, part novel, part spiritual memoir, it’s wholly bold and eccentric and I’m delighted to see it reprinted.”
~ Sarah Waters
 
“They made a noise in the world which has never since died out, and which we, their spiritual descendants, continue to echo.”
 
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 queer 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 queer foremothers, and delights in finding them.
 
With a new afterword by Nicola Wilson.

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