Shooting for the moonwalk

WHO invented the "moonwalk"? Most people go with Michael Jackson, but at the book festival Michael Holroyd made the case for Ellen Terry. The leading lady of the Victorian stage was described as "floating on air" as she crossed the stage, his research reveals.

Terry was so beautiful – her friend, Dracula creator Bram Stoker said she "embodied sunshine" – that Victorian men proposed to their future wives in the following way: "As there's no chance of Ellen Terry marrying me, would you?"