Dancecards
Dancecards
In Brief
The "tasselled dancecards" that Stephen's
mother has kept were staples of formal nineteenth century
dances. Women carried small (approximately 2” x 4”) booklets
with numbered lines corresponding to each piece of music. Men
asked for the privilege of a given dance, and their names or
initials were entered on the corresponding line.
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In the second image displayed here all the names are female, probably because no men were present at this dance at Simmons College, an American women's college.
