Portrait of Mademoiselle Hilligsberg. John Hoppner, 1791.LITTLE PEGGY'S LOVE [1]. AKA and see "Little Peggy (1)," "Lord MacDonald (4)," "Lord MacDonald's Reel," "Lady McDonald's Reel," "Miss Jackson's." English, Reel and Country Dance (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Little Peggy's Love is the name of a ballet produced at the King's Theatre in 1796, staged between the acts of an opera. It was choreographed by Charles-Louis Didelot to music by Cesare Bossi and was a benefit performance for the French dancer, Madame (Jeanette) Hilligsberg, who performed the title role of Peggy. It was explicitly advertised as "in the Scotch stile," although the reviewer in the Morning Chronical (April 23, 1796) declared “it might as well have been Russian,” before admitting “We never saw a trifle produce a finer effect.”
