Llangollen vale, 1796

So they come.

The poet Anna Seward comes, and stays, and in 1796 publishes a long poem in their honor called Llangollen Vale.

The potter Josiah Wedgwood comes.

The Duke of Wellington comes, more than once, an Irishman himself, and grows fond of them.

And word spreads that in this beautiful valley live two Irish gentlewomen who eloped together, who read in five languages, who have made a Gothic fairy cottage out of a farmhouse, and who are, by all accounts, perfectly happy.

So they come.

The poet Anna Seward comes and stays and in 1796 publishes a long poem in their honor called Llangollen Vale.

The potter Josiah Wedgwood comes.