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Re: Dance and the Seashore -- Having a Ball ~ and a swim or boat ride
Gloves were worn at dances. These were not the same gloves worn outside the house or in cold weather. Ladies had to have many pairs of gloves. The thinnest and most elevate were for dancing. They
By Nancy Mayer · #5397 ·
Re: Dance and the Seashore -- Having a Ball ~ and a swim or boat ride
I just noticed this comment: I haven¡¯t followed the entire thread, so pardon me if this is out of place. I can say that gloves were, absolutely, worn in every single reconstruction of dance from the
By Blake Meike · #5396 ·
Re: Dance and the Seashore -- Having a Ball ~ and a swim or boat ride
I imagine they took their gloves off. The ostensiblypupose was to preclude human skin touching human skin direct;y, so it was directed related to dancing. I will try to remember to watch this video
By Ellen Moody · #5395 ·
Having a Ball ~ a comment and a question
The gloves are off. Or are they? Having a Ball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21cNaGc9XDQ Just in time for your holiday viewing. This very enjoyable BBC production resurfaced on Youtube a couple of
By Dorothy Gannon · #5394 ·
Re: Lady Caroline Lamb in Antonia Fraser's biography
I more or less agree, Nancy. Where she has importance for us is as a somewhat atypical aristocratic woman of her time. Ellen <regencyresearcher@...> wrote:
By Ellen Moody · #5393 ·
Re: Lady Caroline Lamb in Antonia Fraser's biography
I haven't read the biography of lady Caroline Lamb s do not know which version of her life they portray. We read Glenarvon as a group, once.It needed a good editor.Most who managed to get through the
By Nancy Mayer · #5392 ·
Lady Caroline Lamb in Antonia Fraser's biography
I read about half, was overwhelmed by other commitments and gave it up, partly because it is not literary, and like other of Fraser's many biographies of aristocratic women (one on Oliver Cromwell) I
By Ellen Moody · #5391 ·
Re: Angela Youngman, The Dark Side of Jane Austen
Life in the navy wasn't easy but Austen's brothers were officers and not men impressed into service.They ordered the flogging and didn't endure them. Floggings were horrible and an image of the
By Nancy Mayer · #5390 ·
Re: Angela Youngman, The Dark Side of Jane Austen
Well they encountered mutinies, directly were involved with pressing, slavery. A lot more sheer experience "in the world." Ellen <regencyresearcher@...> wrote:
By Ellen Moody · #5389 ·
Re: Angela Youngman, The Dark Side of Jane Austen
The description of the book on Amazon Jane was aware of the evils of society, of the problems faced by women whether single or married. Underneath the entertaining story lines are much darker aspects
By Nancy Mayer · #5388 ·
Re: Article in Salon showing why nowadays hard to adopt kittens
Their behavior is absurd. To me they seemed embodiments of what Shakespeare meant when he said people with petty authority are the worst tyrants. It was bigotry disguised as concern for the cats.
By Ellen Moody · #5387 ·
Re: Article in Salon showing why nowadays hard to adopt kittens
The questions asked sounded more like the couple were trying to foster or adopt a child than a cat. No one ever asked us questions when we went to a shelter for a cat or dog except as to whether or
By Nancy Mayer · #5386 ·
Angela Youngman, The Dark Side of Jane Austen
If Youngman's book focuses on unfairness to men, then it is missing the boat by a country mile from what Jane Austen's focus was, which was unfairness to women. ARNIE [email protected]> wrote:
By Arnie Perlstein · #5385 ·
Re: Angela Youngman, The Dark Side of Jane Austen
Interesting concept as it really , off hand, doesn't seem as though her male relatives had a great deal of discouragement, or abysmal poverty. Her father's family were orphaned early and were poor. He
By Nancy Mayer · #5384 ·
Angela Youngman, The Dark Side of Jane Austen
This is the book Diana's reading group has chosen for this month. I finally found an inexpensive copy. It's written in a popular style. The method or idea is to tell Austen's life in such a way as
By Ellen Moody · #5383 ·
Article in Salon showing why nowadays hard to adopt kittens
Aren't they a dime a dozen anywhere? Not exactly, in the US since the pandemic. This is just about cats; I would not be surprised if situation similar for dog adoption
By Ellen Moody · #5382 ·
Darcy's DIsguise?
DIANA: ¡°Arnie asks: Can someone help me locate the famous line when the narrator says that Elizabeth becomes careful about making fun of Darcy??? It is at the bottom of Chapter 58: Elizabeth longed
By Arnie Perlstein · #5381 ·
Darcy's Disguise?
Arnie asks:? Can someone help me locate the famous line?when the narrator says that Elizabeth becomes careful about making fun of?Darcy??? ?It is at the bottom of Chapter 58:??Elizabeth longed
By dianabirchall · #5380 ·
Darcy's Disguise?
Nancy, But that wasn't a disguise by Darcy, that was exactly who Darcy was - an arrogant, narcissistic, aloof snob! As Elizabeth herself accurately satirized him: ¡°I am perfectly convinced by it
By Arnie Perlstein · #5379 ·
Re: Darcy's Disguise?
To look arrogant and toplofty.judgemental, biased. To be fair to Darcy, he was a wealthy bachelor and probably had women falling at his feet when ever he stepped away from his own fireside. He put up
By Nancy Mayer · #5378 ·