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Lee, Carol. Ballet in Western Culture: A History of Its Origin & Evolution. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1999.

Lipton, Eunice. “Images of Laundresses: Social and Sexual Ambivalence.” Looking into Degas: Uneasy Images of Women and Modern Life. Berkley: University of California Press, 1986.

Macleod, Dianne Sachko. “Money and Mainstream Mid-Victorian Values.” Art & the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Nead, Lynda. “Mapping the Self: Gender, Space and Modernity in mid-Victorian London.” Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Reade, Brian. Victoria and Albert Museum: Ballet Designs and Illustrations, 1581 ‚ 1940. London: Her     Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1967.