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| Society Dancing Fashionable Bodies in England, 1870-1920 |
Theresa Jill Buckland is Professor of Performing Arts in the Department of Performance and Digital Arts at De Montfort University. Last week she launched her book, Society Dancing: Fashionable Bodies in England, 1870-1920.
Theresa says, "There are two pictures of Louis D'Egville junior in the book taken from the Tatler 1911, a couple of pages on Louis (father and son) plus a little background. It should help I hope to provide a wider context for their dancing activities and where they stood in terms of status."
No one is better qualified to write this book than Theresa. I found her paper "Edward Scott: The Last of the English Dancing Masters" (Theresa Jill Buckland Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research Vol. 21, No. 2) an incisive and valuable source of information on the professional and social world of Louis (father and son).
Louis (father and son) in this instance refers to Louis Hervey d'Egville (1819-1892) and Louis Hervey d'Egville (1855-1927). Louis (son) was grandfather to Alan d'Egville Stott of the South African Air Force who was killed at the age of 24 on the Warsaw supply missions of August 1944. Which ties neatly with yesterday's posting. Any semblance of order or structure on this blog is entirely illusory.
Society Dancing
Fashionable Bodies in England, 1870-1920
Theresa Jill Buckland
Palgrave Macmillan
13 Jun 2011
9780230277144
Hardback
264 pages
Price £50.00
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