… Art and its Various Excellencies are in Some Measure Explain'd : Containing the Several Sorts of Dancing. (London: Jacob Tonson, 1712). 3 . Jennifer Homan, Apollo’s Angels A History of Ballet (New York: Random House, 2010), p. 56. 4 . Kellom …
… Eighteenth Century Collections Online also contains relevant texts. 8 . Peter Motteux, ‘A Poem upon Tea‘ (London: Tonson, 1712) in Ellis (ed.), Literary Representations, p. 37-48. 9 . The poem and its date of publication are discussed …
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… Philosopher [1734], (Dublin: Robert Freebairn) pp. 42, 46. 10 . [Mary Wray], The Ladies Library [1722] (London: Jacob Tonson), pp. 12, 16. 11 . Joseph Spence, 'Letters from The Grand Tour 1730 1741', in Slava Klima (ed.) Joseph Spence: …
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… visibility of women. 10 . Richard Steele, ‘no. 33, Saturday 7 April 1712’, in The Spectator (London: S. Buckley and J. Tonson, 1712), vol. 1, p. 180–186. In 1776, The Morning Post published the ‘Scale of Bon Ton’, listing the scores for …