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Survey of London
… as an entertainer and courtesan and eventually married a dancer called Pompeati. She first came to England in 1746 to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Howkins's alms-houses. At the junction of Wash Lane and Dancer Hill Road, known as Cuckold Corner, there were various …
Old and New London
… head, riding on a miserable nag; Cadman, a celebrated rope-dancer, is represented flying by a rope from the tower of St. … the houses opposite. The portrait of another famous rope-dancer, Violante, is introduced by Hogarth. From the steeple …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… she or Mary were the more lovely, the taller, the better dancer, &c. Nichols, Progresses of Queen Eliz. i, 487, 529. …