Category: Dancing in Fiction
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A Christmas Eve Dance
People of other languages must have their own memories of famous literary Christmas parties. This, I believe, is the most famous in the English-speaking world. It was envisioned by the […]
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Burning floors
Dancing was so much a part of Catholic social life in the 20th century West, and forbidding dancing so much associated with Anabaptist sects, that it came as a surprise […]
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A Delicious Redowa
Among the many online remarks I have read on the subject of social dancing is the observation that some girls grow up thinking that dances will be like those they […]
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A Period Piece
Having decided to read more fiction about dancing, I purchased Rosamond Lehmann’s Invitation to the Waltz (1932, republished by Virago, 1981). It is an interesting rather than enjoyable book; there […]
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Strip the Willow for Soldiers
There are dances traditionally for women, dances traditionally for men, and dances traditionally danced by both sexes together. Then there is Scottish Highland dancing. “Friday night was always dancing night,” […]