Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… 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 its own set of laws. They were … 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, …
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