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The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
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Casanova in London (1763) [ People ]
… intending to amuse myself till midnight, and to find a beauty to my taste. I was pleased with the rotunda. I had some tea, I danced some minuets, but I made no acquaintances; and although I saw several pretty women, I did not dare to …
Assemblies | Music | Women
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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Abroad, 3 vols. (London, 1722), vol II, p. 41. Assembly rooms typically had a few central rooms, including a ballroom, tearoom, and rooms for playing cards. Early definitions of ‘assemblies’ were very basic, expanding over the course of the …
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Spas [ Health ]
Assemblies | Fiction | Health | Leisure | Medicine | North America | Spa
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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… to it (Llanover, vol. 4, 328). And yet, she still kept a sense of the etiquette in all situations, and did her best to teach it to her protegee, Frances Burney , whom her father had asked Mary Delany to introduce at court. Henrietta Ward, …
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