Start Date
3-18-2013 2:58 PM
Description
The author reviews a letter from the Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (1815), and compares the importance of dancing to gentleman in this letter to the dancing of gentlemen at the Meryton Ball in Pride and Prejudice.
Repository Citation
Railsback, Dena, ""Dancing is of More Importance to a Gentleman Than at First it Appears"" (2013). Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial. 13.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/celia_pride/preconference/blog/13
"Dancing is of More Importance to a Gentleman Than at First it Appears"
The author reviews a letter from the Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (1815), and compares the importance of dancing to gentleman in this letter to the dancing of gentlemen at the Meryton Ball in Pride and Prejudice.