Dancing may never have been so much the favourite occupation of all classes as it is today, but there is no recorded period of history in which it does not bulk largely amongst the diversions of the human race. In this talk Miss Hirons will recall a few famous passages about dancing from the dramatic splendour of the Waterloo Ball in 'Vanity Fair' to the uproarious jollity of Dingley Dell, the formal manoeuvres of Jane Austen's heroes and heroines to the fantastic dance on Rose Macaulay's Orphan Islands.