1 10 1 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/4347/archive/files/381d95ef998e145b34b1746b523a2c6e.pdf?Expires=1773878400&Signature=rLaJrukmfcMfO-KLcX7dGW4bXi8ECR1ApmM4QK5KnZdKaUemhgsTlhiemVFIEdhS05xQbPlNDXrWXkrrIisIIzP7LWTG2ZWBe8TcOHnj8CoRgV79szoQO6IR26E-SN6gQa-absbCvdHNybh6lH9I2MDRPeVsqrZhj4XHtAk0i-gJRw5vLY7XO7QbEyERmkOVzXSciIe%7EhgS7lrOWqCZs32ehisknc-3BzQWeshsBRuGOSiIdz6i67Jc4ht1aUks9YHD6guWgbCyWQbGetstgm9D7EsBsugPfsLHScXqEUf8ZyOQAqkRh2%7ETcuX8F-lWW6uw3FZc99lxsrXVS2AeDSw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM eef2f2a72430c7b77862fa501710bec9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1841 Subject The topic of the resource Stories published in 1841. Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. THE BALLET—AN AMERICAN LADY’S OPINION OF THE OPERA.—We had the ballet “La Gitana,” after the singing and Taglioni. No praise of her grace is exaggerated.—There is music in every movement of her arms; and if she would restrict herself within the limits of decency, there could not be a more exquisite spectacle of its kind than her dancing. I would give in to the ravings of her admirers and allow that her grace is God’s beautiful gift, and that fitting it is it should be so used. But could not this grace be equally demonstrated with a skirt a few inches longer and rather less transparent? To my crude notions her positions are often disgusting; and when she raised her leg to a right angle with her body, I could have exclaimed, as Carlyle did, “Merciful Heaven! where will it end?” Familiarity must dull the sense to these bad parts of the exhibition; for Mrs. ----- quoted a French woman, who said, of Taglioni, “One must be virtuous to dance like that.” I should rather have said differently. And I would divide the world, not as our witty friend ----- does, into men, women, and Mary Wolstonecrafts, but into men, women, and ballet-dancers. For surely a woman must have forgotten the instincts of her sex before she can dance even as Taglioni does. I am not apt as you know my dear C., to run a tilt against public amusements; but I hold this to be an execrable one; and if my voice could have any influence, I would pray every modest woman and modest man, --for why should this virtue be graduated by a different scale for the different sexes? –every modest man and woman then, in our land to discountenance its advancement there. If we have not yet the perfections of a matured civilization, God save us from the corruptions that prelude and intimate its decline! * * * Miss Sedgwick’s New Work. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Ballet: An American Lady's Opinion of the Opera Subject The topic of the resource Ballet, morals Description An account of the resource Sedgwick describes seeing Marie Taglioni dance in London, and and declares ballet to be lacking in virtue. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New-Yorker, 14 July 1841, p. 341. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1841 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource D. Gussman Relation A related resource Excerpted (and slightly revised) from Sedgwick's Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, By Miss Sedgwick. 2 vols. London: E. Moxon, 1841, pp. 62-63. Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Document 1841 ballet civilization corruption La Gitana letters Letters from Abroad Marie Taglioni Mary Wollestonecraft modesty New-Yorker Thomas Carlyle virtue