The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… the Early Modern Era (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984), p. 345-83. 2 . E. Digby Baltzell, Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979). William Penn, a … Quaker morality left Philadelphia with ‘little gaiety and less elegance’. 3 3 . Carl and Jessica Bridenbaugh, Rebels and Gentlemen. Philadelphia in the Age of Franklin (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1942), p. 2. Thus, the city’s thriving … John Ormsby informed those interested in his school of fencing and dancing that he ‘has had the honour to tutor several gentlemen and ladies of the first rank in different parts of Europe.’ 8 He prepared students for ‘a discreet and …
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