Laura,Here are my sources for my information on the
waltz and Almack's.Emily Hendrickson's "Regency Refer-
ence Book" which is in the bibliography here and an article
in the July/August issue of "The Regency Plume" on the lady
Patronesses by Shirley Kennedy.If you would like more info
on "The Regency Plume"I have posted the contact person's
name on this board below or you can use the links and go to
Cathy Decker's Regency Page.I hope this has been something of a help to you.The article on the Lady Patronesses of Al-
mack's has inspired me to write a mystery using those noble
ladies as sleuths.I was reading something on your homepage
on a lady having a title in her own right and you mentioned
Lady Willoughby de Eresby,who in the Regency was mother -in-
law to the redoubtable Mrs.Drummond-Burrell.Did you know
that she was first cousin to Jane Austen's brother James
first wife Anne Mathew so that made Jane's niece Anna sec-
ond cousin by marriage to Mrs.Drummond-Burrell? I discovered
that from reading the biographical index in Deirdre LeFaye's
edition of Jane Austen's Letters.
Thanks lots,
Mary Collette List
