No Daughter of Mine Is Going to Be a Dancer! : Dan Joyce Meyer Wolfson History Prize-winning historian Clare

Wolfson History Prize-winning historian Clare Jackson finally reappraises the life and legacy of the first king of Great Britain

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No Daughter of Mine Is Going to Be a Dancer! : Dan Joyce Meyer Wolfson History Prize-winning historian ClareIn her tale of a dancer's life in 1940s America, Underwood reveals both the rapture she felt in dancing and her refreshingly spunky approach to a career. Over the decade, this young woman experiencing a wide range of performing styles and training techniques matured and developed as an artist and a person. Her reminiscences, written in the vivid prose style she cultivated in her mature years as a dance critic in Burlington, Vermont (where for decades