Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… to create ‘well-regulated’ places not simply as part of the health establishment but also in dwellings where individual houses were hidden under unifying fronts which made them resemble aristocratic palaces. This appears in Queen Square with … a while, enjoyed more freedom than at home and could find friends or husbands: they escaped the confines of the family house, could go to such an innovative institution as a coffee-house for the ladies 27 and enjoy the pleasures of the imagination to the full, thanks to the varied cultural …
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