… relationship with Bath, where she returned again and again, attracted and repulsed by the multiple encounters, across gender and class, that she could have there. Interestingly, she described ‘[her] house at Bath [as] for many winters constantly open to as many as resided there.’ 20 She subverted the class-oriented, gender-biased model of spa sociability that had prevailed in Bath until the middle of the century to create a new type of … to a Friend, Bath, January 1, 1792, Memoirs of the Life, vol. I, p. 854. 22 . Amanda E. Herbert, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity and Friendship in Early Modern Britain (Yale: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 141. Political issues – …