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Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture (Music in American Life)
by William J. Mahar
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with references to "fancy ball".
Excerpt - from Front Matter: "
... the first "Italian" opera composed by an American, Leonora (1845), by William Henry Fry (1813-64), became subjects in "De Colored Fancy Ball" (1848) and in one of early minstrelsy's greatest hits, "Dinah's Wedding Day" (1848). ... "
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Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Power in a Gilded Age (Paperback)
by Dr. Eric Homberger
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with references to "fancy ball".
Excerpt - from Front Matter: "
... journalism by George Wotherspoon at the New-York Historical Society, are of primary value. The discovery of the manuscript of The Fancy Ball Given by Mrs. ... "
Key Phrases:
New York, Fifth Avenue, John Jacob Astor, Grace Church, William Astor, Town Topics, howling swells, aristocratic neighborhoods, parterre boxes, society journalism, fancy ball, social supremacy
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Red Rose and Tiger Lily or In a Wider World
by L. T. Meade
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with references to "fancy ball".
Excerpt - on Page 104: "
... Yes, at one end." " Then the whole thing is complete," continued Annie. " We'll have a children's fancy ball in the evening, and Nora shall look on from the gallery. ... "
Key Phrases:
Bernard Temple, Annie Forest, Jane Macalister, Squire Lorrimer, Lavender House, Miss Annie, Miss Forest, Friar's Wood, Hester Thornton, Miss Hetty, rotten bough, fancy ball
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Tales Of The Good Woman By A Doubtful Gentleman
by James Kirke Paulding
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with references to "fancy ball".
Excerpt - from Front Matter: "
... THE FANCY BALL AT THE CITY ASSEMBLY ROOM. • CHAPTER IX. MORE OF THE GRAND FANCY BALL. • CHAPTER X. LOVE'S PERPLEXITIES. ... "
Key Phrases:
Master Lavender, Master O'Reilly, Anne Burras, James Town, Miss Macfaddle, Captain Smith, Julia Wingate, quoth the justice, plumb pudding, thy valour, satin doublet, fancy ball
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