Be flirty. The decline of »whom«. Notable masquerade scenes appear in Defoe’s Roxana (1724), Richardson’s Pamela, Part 2 (1741) and Sir Charles Grandison (1753), Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749) and Amelia (1751), Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749), Smollett’s Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), Burney’s Cecilia (1782), lnchbald’s A Simple Story (1791), and Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801). In addition, significant references to the world of public travesty occur in Smollett’s Roderick Random (1748), Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Burney’s Evelina (1778), Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), and a host of minor works of the period.

 

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