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… The Bath assembly rooms , renovated by John Wood the younger in 1771, certainly represent the epitome of late Georgian elite sociability around card-playing games such as quadrille, dancing and tea, with a specific room dedicated to each … both as agents of control through satire and poems a clef , and reflecting on the porosity between the popular and elite cultures. All these literary productions had sickness and treatment in the background, some celebrating the … Self at British Health Spas, 1640–1714’, Journal of Social History (43, no. 2, 2009), pp. 361–83. 11 . Elaine Chalus, ‘Elite Women, Social Politics, and the Political World of Late Eighteenth-Century England’, The Historical Journal (43, …
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