… Head, without mentioning a notorious Nuisance which hath lately arisen in this Town; I mean, those Balls where Men and Women of loose Reputation meet in disguised Habits. As to the Masquerade in the Hay-market , I have nothing to say; I … it could also be seen as a potential utopia of female sovereignty, which 'engendered an ‘Amazonian race'', a society of 'women unmarked by patriarchy' (Castle 255) . 6 . Ronald L. Grimes, ‘Masking: Toward a Phenomenology of Exteriorization’, … Craft-Fairchild, Catherine, Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993). Greig , Hannah, The Beau Monde : Fashionable …