Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… of Baythe or the One-Headed Corporation’, 1763, British Museum, Cc,3.44. Image InFilms, ‘View from Prior Park, Bath over gardens and the Palladian Bridge towards the city of Bath’, 2006, WikiCommons. Abstract Bath and Pyrmont were each … happiness: invalids and those that accompanied them sought an improvement in their physical condition and psychological pleasure. Their psychosomatic disorders could only be relieved by the combined experience of novelty and freedom. The … in the spa, mixed-sex sociability, imposed refinement and theatricality in the Parades, the Assembly Rooms , the Pleasure Gardens , the coffee-houses , put a new burden on the newcomers, that of conforming to a specific ritual with …
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