Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… licentious behaviour in the seventeenth century, it became a centre of mixed sex sociability, ranking just behind London, as a beacon of new social interaction. A city which started as a market town 5 evolved into a fashionable spa … Pump Room', Yale Center for British Art, B1975.3.53, 1798. 1 . See Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (London: Vintage, 1996), p. 381-398. 2 . Lawrence Klein considers that politeness was ‘a flexible device for … 6 . The number of British spas kept increasing: see Phyllis Hembry, The English Spa (1560-1815): A Social History (London: The Althone Press, 1990): over 138 spas were identified. 7 . The practice became widespread in Bath following the …
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