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Title: The "Ladies of Llangollen"
as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects
of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"

Author: John Hicklin

Release Date: March 13, 2007 [eBook #20810]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE "LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN"***

Transcribed from the 1847 Thomas Catherall edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org. We would like to thank Llangollen Library,
Denbighshire, for allowing access to the copy from which this
transcription was made.

THE "LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN,"
AS SKETCHED BY MANY HANDS;
WITH NOTICES OF
OTHER OBJECTS OF INTEREST
IN
"THAT SWEETEST OF VALES."

BY JOHN HICKLIN,
EDITOR OF THE "CHESTER COURANT," AUTHOR OF THE "HISTORY OF CHESTER
CATHEDRAL," ETC. ETC.

CHESTER:
THOMAS CATHERALL, EASTGATE ROW;
LONDON: WHITTAKER & CO.; ACKERMANN & CO., STRAND;
DUBLIN: T. CRANFIELD.

MDCCCXLVII.

TO
MISS LOLLY AND MISS ANDREW,
THE
PROPRIETORS AND OCCUPIERS OF PLAS NEWYDD.
THE FAMED RETREAT OF
"The Ladies of Llangollen,"
THE FOLLOWING PAGES
ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,
BY
THEIR OBEDIENT SERVANT,

THE PUBLISHER.

THE LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN.

From the early age of Cambrian history, when the peerless beauty of the
high-born Myfanwy Fechan awoke the passion and the poesy of her admiring
bard, Howel ap Einion Llygliw, down to the modern days of the more
humble, but not less renowned maiden, "Sweet Jenny Jones;" Llangollen,
"that sweetest of vales," seems to have been associated with
recollections of tender and roman