Lady Fanny Flutter, at home on midsummer night : for waltzing and flirting, (the latter the natural consequence of the former).

Lady Fanny Flutter, at home on midsummer night , circa 1800

Title(s):: Lady Fanny Flutter, at home on midsummer night : for waltzing and flirting, (the latter the natural consequence of the former).
Published/Created:: London, circa 1800.
Physical Description:: 1 card ; 8 x 12 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
BJ1872 .L3 1800 Box
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13501761
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Title from head of card. The text continues: "All the fathers, husbands and brothers of the ladies invited, with the members of a certain society, will to a moral certainty, be carefully excluded. As the present select assembly is intended as a refinement on innovation, the ladies will, on this occasion, be authorised to ask the gentlemen. Top of Constitution Hill. With carriage, or without carriage, you may set down any way, and take up any how."
The card would presumably have been distributed discreetly by hand.
Subject Terms:: Etiquette -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
Prostitution -- Great Britain.
Form/Genre:: Printed ephemera.
Business cards.
Social cards.
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