Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… entrance (as can be seen, for example, in the well-known masquerade scenes in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones and Amelia , Samuel Richardson ’s Pamela or Tobias Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle ). The masquerade assembly would typically enjoy musical … most memorably perhaps in Elizabeth Haywood’s The Masqueraders and Fantomina (1724), Daniel Defoe ’s Roxana (1724), Samuel Richardson ’s Pamela (1741) and Sir Charles Grandison (1753), Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749) and Amelia (1751), …
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