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The Ladies of Llangollen is the first book length critical study of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, whose 1778 elopement and five decades of “retirement” turned them into eighteenth century celebrities and pivotal figures in the historiography of female same-sex desire. Debates within the history of sexuality have long foundered over questions of what constitutes “proof” of past sexual desires and practices, and the nature of Butler and Ponsonby’s intimacy has been deemed inimical to productive critical consideration. In this ground-breaking study Fiona Brideoake attends to the archive of their shared life—written, performed, and enacted in the vernacular of the everyday—to argue that they embodied an early iteration of female celebrity in which their queerness registered less as the mark of some specified non-normativity than as the effect of their very public, very visible resistance to sexual legibility. Throughout their lives and afterlives, Butler and Ponsonby have been figured as chaste romantic friends, prototypical lesbians, Bluestockings, Romantic domestic archetypes, and proleptically feminist modernists. The Ladies of Langollen demonstrates that this heterogeneous legacy discloses the queerness of their performatively instantiated identities.

THE white parents of twins fathered by a black man in an IVF blunder are to adopt the children, it was revealed yesterday. Despite ruling Mr B was the legal and biological father, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss said there was \"no question of uprooting the twins from their happy and loving environment\". She said Mr B would have no parental responsibility or say in the children's upbringing. Professional bodies reassured the public that errors in IVF are rare and procedures were being tightened in the wake of the case.

The judge, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, praised Miss B's \"great courage, strength of will, determination and sense of humour\". Granting Miss B's wish yesterday, Dame Elizabeth stressed that she had \"the greatest possible sympathy\" for her doctors and nurses. Dame Elizabeth awarded Miss B a token pounds 100 damages for the Trust's \"unlawful trespass\" against her.

At the same time, judge Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss said she would not decide on whom should have custody of the babies, born after a woman received sperm from the wrong man at a fertility clinic. She said that decision would require a separate court ruling. Butler-Sloss said the couples were at the clinic on the same day to receive a treatment known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection, in which fresh sperm is injected into an egg and then implanted into a woman's uterus.

At the same time, judge Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss said she would not decide on whom should have custody of the babies, born after a woman received sperm from the wrong man at a fertility clinic. She said that decision would require a separate court ruling. Butler-Sloss said the couples were at the clinic on the same day to receive a treatment known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection, in which fresh sperm is injected into an egg and then implanted into a woman's uterus.